One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost information. I could see this coming in 2015 with the move to the cloud and...
2026-07-13 (first published: 2026-06-29)
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By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite Join” on the LATERAL clause. The reason I like it is that it lets you...
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attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone – not even trying to quench the flames anymore, but lighting other fires...
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Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend. Azure SQL’s new Automatic Index Compaction targets page density directly — so I tested it.
2026-07-10 (first published: 2026-06-30)
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Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database deployments, you've probably already run into its limits. It's still very much in its infancy....
2026-07-10
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I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will...
2026-07-10
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If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac with Apple Silicon is genuinely one of the best machines you can have as a...
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A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail of clues leading to the leader of a shadowy cyber organization.
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A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a performance metric. In this case, they were wanting to use Redgate Monitor and custom metrics,...
2026-07-08
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With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting build entirely in Fabric where you can have almost live data in reports. The pitch...
2026-07-08 (first published: 2026-06-23)
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By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
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Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
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I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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