Resources for Adding Graph Structures to Your Database at VS Live

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at VS Live Las Vegas 2023 on graph databases. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have questions, please feel free...

Cloud Diagrams

Daily Coping 22 Mar 2023

Today’s coping tip is to appreciate your hands and all the things they do for you. I make a living with my hands. I type constantly, which is a...

What's a Code Smell?

Poor patterns and practices are code smells. Steve Jones notes we have plenty in T-SQL.

Daily Coping 21 Mar 2023

Today’s coping tip is to listen to a piece of music without doing anything else. This is surprisingly hard. I turn something on, but then I look around, think...

Daily Coping 20 Mar 2023

Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice how the weather feels. This was a good tip to see before my trip last week to the UK. I...

Enabling Accelerated Data Recovery

Enjoying SQL Bits

It’s been a good week at SQL Bits. This is my favorite conference, and the organizers go out of their way to make it a fun and sustainable event....

Metrics and Measures

We need to measure and monitor things to become better, but we need to keep an eye on what the actual goal is from this monitoring.

SQL Server 2022 Restore and DBCompat