This is Week 1 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...
2026-05-20 (first published: 2026-05-04)
187 reads
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more complicated than it really is. The easiest way to think about it is this: MCP...
2026-05-20 (first published: 2026-05-04)
111 reads
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the invitation post, I intentionally kept the prompt broad because change detection looks different depending on...
2026-05-19
13 reads
Are you currently using Microsoft Fabric or considering migrating to it? If so, there are a couple of options to significantly reduce your monthly running costs. Firstly, there’s the...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-14)
23 reads
This happened to me recently after being busy with non-data modeling tasks for a few weeks. I went to add a relationship and was confused about the behavior. Read...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-04)
163 reads
Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s Club. I was awarded this, along with our top people in Sales, for the work...
2026-05-18
10 reads
You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and mobile apps) is the chat product you talk to. The Claude API is the developer...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-13)
17 reads
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered requires SQL Server to participate in the snapshot: the write IO freeze, the metadata backup,...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-08)
22 reads
Train Wreck
The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-16)
12 reads
Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working with cloud data platforms, SQL engines, and machine learning pipelines, a handful of titles keep...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-13)
31 reads
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Whatsapp 087781685647 Jl. Suryopranoto No.40, RT.12/RW.7, Petojo Utara, Kecamatan Gambir, Kota Jakarta Pusat, Daerah...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
See possible answers