Creating a Synapse Workspace

As part of my job, I needed to research how a few things work with Synapse and Fabric. The latter includes the former, mostly. I decided to setup a...

Saving Emergency Space on my Laptop

With my new laptop, one of the things I realized I’d forgotten to do in setup is reserve some space. I wrote about this years ago, but I wanted...

Setting Emergency State

T-SQL Tuesday #178–A Recent Technical Problem

This month we have a good invitation from Deepthi Goguri, where she asks us about a technical problem. I think most of are technical people and we solve problems...

Adding Features During a SQL Server 2022 Upgrade

The Invisible Disk

Steve sees disk drives as shrinking to the point of being invisible to most of us.

A New Word: Incidental Contact High

incidental contact high – n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job – a barber, yoga instructor, or friendly waitress – that you find more meaningful than...

Am I on Synapse?

Container Development Work

Steve talks about using containers for development work today.

Creating a Test Pipeline in Azure DevOps using a Windows Agent

A customer was having some trouble getting started with Azure DevOps (AzDO) and building their database, so we took a step back and decided to create a simple test...