A New Word: Lackout

lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all –...

Adding Defaults

Generating Random Strings with GenAI

One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other people do and seeing how well the AI works. In this case, I took a...

Heading to SQL Bits 2025

I’ll be at SQL Bits tomorrow, Saturday Jun 20, 2025 for the final day of the conference. I wasn’t selected to speak, but since I’m in Cambridge next week...

Multiple Monitoring Tools

Steve wonders if it is worth it to use multiple monitoring systems for a database.

Better Trigger Design: #SQLNewBlogger

I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables. This is the third post in the series. The first one Another post for me...

SQL Server 2025 Excitement

Today Steve wonders how many of you might be looking forward to SQL Server 2025 and consider it to be a major release.

What is Between?

How Many Can Be the Greatest

Patching the Patch

If you have had to fix the thing you just fixed with a fix, you might enjoy today's editorial.