In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog using SQL Server 2025’s new native REST API integration. But what if you’re still running...
2025-10-25
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I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places and wanted to try it locally. This If you want to get started, read my...
2025-10-24 (first published: 2025-10-13)
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Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily create database snapshots. This new version fixes a bug that we’ve found in version 2...
2025-10-24 (first published: 2025-10-02)
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I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-22)
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server in 2025 and your sa login is still usable, you’re giving attackers a giant, blinking...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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I still see a lot of confusion about the functionality of Microsoft Purview ever since multiple products were combined into it, so I wanted to write this blog to...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-15)
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In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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DBAs should never run SSMS under their everyday Windows account
If you open SSMS under the same Windows identity you use for email, browsing, and chat, you bring all that...
2025-10-22 (first published: 2025-10-07)
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In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...
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Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
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I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
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