The Costs and Rewards of Speaking

Steve has had a good time sharing knowledge with others at events. He gives you a few thoughts on why you might join him at a future event.

Invisible Downtime

Steve has a few thoughts on invisible downtime, a term he had never heard until recently.

LOGON Trigger Count

Using Flyway with Feature Flags

There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to...

Kubernetes is Cool, But ...

Steve has a few thoughts on Kubernetes and how much data professionals should care about the technology.

Multiple Query Trace Flags

A New Word: Flichtish

flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself – only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent thread, a...

Creating Statistics on XML

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the job, but the other part is removing local branches. This post looks at one way...

Managing SQL Agent in Azure Data Studio

This article continues my series on ADS and examines the SQL Agent extension.