A Backup Change

Steve Jones talks about backup of data today and the challenges of managing this at scale.

Data Governance Survey–Still Time

Just a reminder. Redgate is doing research into data governance, and we have a small survey we’d love to get...

Heat Maps

Automate Migrations–T-SQL Tuesday #94

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, and I’m slightly pressed for time, which is sad. This is a great topic.
Rob Sewell...

Remove an Active Lease on a Blob in Azure

I was creating and dropping VMs in Azure, and found myself charged money for disks that I thought I’d deleted....

The Randomness of Analog

A look back at the random nature of finding information in libraries and bookstores. A feeling Steve Jones misses.

Creating a large database

Final Thoughts

Walt Mossberg is retiring and Steve has a few thoughts on his last column.

Responsible Log Growth with dbatools

I love dbatools, and I’ve been trying to explore the various cmdlets over time, both to practice my PoSh and...

The Control Poll

Do you use version control for your databases? For your application code? Is there a time when you think it's not needed? Steve Jones asks the question today.