Hello Dear Reader! This past week was a busy one. As we've started to settle into the new house we are transitioning from eating out or having meals delivered,...
2023-06-19
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Hello Dear Reader! Let's address the missing week. Last week I was really behind due to the move. We did not have a Monday video and despite my best...
2023-06-12
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Hello Dear Reader! Sorry this is so late, moving houses has gotten me a bit behind this week. I will do better next week!As you may have heard last...
2023-06-01
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MY WILL, MY BUG, MY GRADUATEJust a little under 18 and one half years ago, William came into my life. There are a lot of words to describe a new...
2023-05-23
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Next week is Microsoft Build and there is a Microsoft Digital Event occurring on May 24 - 25 starting at 9 AM Pacific Time for a live simulcast with a lot...
2023-05-15
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Hello Dear Reader!! We also have some really, really, BIG NEWS for next week! It also happens that next week is Microsoft Build, make sure to register for free! But...
2023-05-15
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Hello Dear Reader! My lastest blog on our Azure FastTrack blog for Microsoft is live, Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Here's a little from the blog:To paraphrase Annie,...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-02)
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Hello Dear Reader, what a week! On Thursday my wife and I closed on a new house. We are so incredibly excited! We owned a house for a very...
2023-05-08
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Hello Dear Reader! I've realized something writting this blog. I don't like to sit still. It is very rare that I have a down weekend, and this weekend was...
2023-05-01
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Hello Dear Reader! This past week was one I had been looking forward to for quite some time. A couple of months ago I had started reaching out to...
2023-04-24
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By Steve Jones
At SQL Saturday Boston 2025, I gave a presentation on local LLMs and there...
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Are you diversifying your DBA skillset? My recent job search made one thing clear:...
By Steve Jones
I flew to Amsterdam last night and hopefully by the time this publishes I’ll...
Hi we run 2019 standard. Our warehouse's ssis based etl is klunky but so...
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The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?
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