T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...

DevOps is DevOps

DevOps includes a lot of practices, but no matter which technology that you use, the ideas are the same.

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...

Striped Backup File Limits

Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI

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...

Advice I Like: Training Employees

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...

Can/Can't Do/Don't

Are you more positive or negative when you approach a problem?

Strange String Splits

Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI

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...

Practice Until You Don't Get It Wrong

We will all make mistakes, but practice can help reduce the errors we cause.