Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server

Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server, in this post I want to see if I can improve the performance from the...

Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?

Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?

xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a built-in dry-run option to preview which files it would remove. But there’s a simple workaround,...

Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded...

Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2025

Announced at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago were many new product features related to the data platform. Check out the Major announcements and Book of News. I went through the many announcements and picked...

Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information

For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday newsletter. It tends to hit my inbox in the wee hours of Wednesday.

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been posting at the Straight Path Solutions site recently), but I did want to reply to...

A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193

This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....

Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop

I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...

More fun with Git: git restore

The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on GitHub. The vast majority of the commits, merges, and squashes I run on a daily...

Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!

I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive and access it from Power BI nearly live! We can officially short cut files to...