Managed Instance Managed Log Backups

Who's Responsible?

If mistakes are made, employees can be held financially responsible by some companies. Do we need to worry about this in our industry?

Flyway with Multiple Folders

A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...

Highly Skilled

The highly skilled people are changing and getting jobs. A recent report notes this is of concern to executives and hiring practices may be changing. Steve has a few hints for how you can grow your own career and find new opportunities.

The JSON Table

A New Word: Astrophe

astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth. Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in...

Contained AG MSDB Naming

Heading to That Conference

I’ve been working with Ryan Booz a bit more and as we’ve talked over the last few weeks, he has asked me a few times if I’ve booked travel...

Using Data Masker on Chinese Surnames

A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was interesting, so decided to test this out. This is a short post on using SQL...

Actively Choosing Compatibility

Do you actively choose which compatibility level makes sense for your SQL Server databases? Or do you just take the defaults? Steve has a few thoughts today on actively managing your system.