Evaluating a DBA (or AI)

Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.

Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources

Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It was a fun session and I’m glad a few people came up to ask questions....

The Disabled Index

T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with...

A Last Minute Trip to the EU

My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer trips, I can be on the road a lot. As it is, I’ve flown across...

An Azure Outage

Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.

I Don't Want To Do XX

This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.

Squared Values

The Book of Redgate: Hours

I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of company I’d want to build if I founded another company. It’s a great place, and...

Updating the Data API Builder

I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to work with the MCP server capabilities. As I was trying to get this working, I...