Damian is Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience. Now trying to share the passion and knowledge among others. He runs the blog with his daughter as she is really passionate about technology

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#DPS10 – preconfs

I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...

2019-08-21

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Coffee poured into mug from machine

Weekly reading #24

Hello #SQLFamily! We are packing for the longest trip this year. Next week we will start in Shanghai, then will move to Bangalore for #DPS10 and the last week...

2019-08-06

17 reads

Cup of Coffee

Weekly reading #23

New week has started and apart from the usual information from the data world I would like to share one more. The Machine Learning topic published last week has...

2019-07-29

9 reads

Award

Weekly reading #22

A little bit late but it is here! It is Wednesday already and we are preparing for #DPS2019 which will be in August in Bangalore. Meanhwile I received another...

2019-07-24

26 reads

Blogs

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates

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On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...

How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

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When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...

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Upgrading Admin Queries

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Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?  

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