Bare Metal

Today Steve talks about bare metal servers and virtual machines. He wonders if any of you still run bare metal.

Resuming Indexes on Old Databases

T-SQL Tuesday #163 – The Best Career Advice

We’re a little delayed this month. Both the host and I forgot about this. So far in June, I’ve been in Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Denver, and Cambridge for...

Defending the RDBMS

An attack and defense of using relational data stores.

The Four Different Types of Flyway Files

This is documented, somewhat, but I wanted to put this down for myself, as the I don’t love the docs and they are hard to sort through. Flyway is...

Fitting Into RAM

Will your database fit into RAM? Steve Jones asks you to think about the possibility.

Managed Instance Differential Backups

Talking about the New Open-Source SQLCMD on Data Exposed

I was on the Data Exposed: MVP Edition show recently, talking about SQLCMD. I’ve written a few articles on the topics as well, and a blog post about setting...

Data Engineering in Fabric

A New Word: Licotic

licotic – adj. anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing – a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a TV show they’re lucky enough to...