Technology Fears

Steve is asking today what technology scares you.

Using SQL Compare in Read-Only Databases

Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...

Using Copilot to help me update SQL Saturday

An interesting AI experiment here with Copilot from GitHub in handling some code I don’t work with that often. Read on and watch. This is part of a series...

Using Outer Joins

What's New for the Microsoft Data Platform

What do you think will be announced today by Microsoft.

Cloud Sources for the Data Migration Assistant

Idempotent

There are all sorts of coding practices that produce better code. Steve Jones talks about one today.

Off to the PASS Data Community Summit 2024

As this publishes, I’ll get taxiing down the runway at DIA (fingers crossed) and flying to Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024.  I’m very lucky that I...

2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep

Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling Monday to the event to see a few thousand fellow data professionals, developers, managers, and...

A New Word: Bye-over

bye-over – n.  the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional farewell but then unexpectedly have a little extra time together, wordlessly agreeing to pretend that...