“We love to debate minutiae”
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue about details in fitness or finances that are more detailed than is useful to them....
2026-03-13
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Blog Posts
Advice I Like: Knots
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand. For the rest of your life, you’ll use this knot more times than you would...
2026-03-13
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI, Today on Day 3 I would like to write about LLM models — Open Source...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now Day 6 is inside of AI , how AI understand us, as computer do not...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture (CDC). That is still what is used to mirror SQL Server 2016 – 2022. SQL...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released patches for SQL Server to address privilege escalation vulnerabilities in supported versions. Time to patch!
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-12)
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-02-23)
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The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if ensure I could easily refresh dev and test environments on demand. In a small startup,...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as cloud adoption has matured, I’ve come to realise that building and running great systems isn’t...
2026-03-12
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Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as a crucial bridge between innovation and implementation. Whether you are fine-tuning code, testing new features,...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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