Advice I Like: Art
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken – from Excellent Advice for Living Interesting advice for living...
2025-12-12
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Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken – from Excellent Advice for Living Interesting advice for living...
2025-12-12
14 reads
Refactoring code is a common task in many software development teams. Steve asks if this is something common for database developers as well.
2025-12-12
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Steve looks to the future of Microsoft and AI after listening to a podcast with Satya Nadella
2025-12-10
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2025-12-10
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2025-12-08
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We often find security issues come from holes in the way we've set up systems. Steve asks if you perform security checkups on your systems.
2025-12-08
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Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore how it works. This is a short look at this tool and how it might...
2025-12-05 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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2025-12-05
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There has been a push to build real time analytics and decision support systems. Steve discusses whether this is a good idea for many organizations.
2025-12-05
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This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
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Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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