The Backup File Extension

The DBAccountant

Are DBAs going to be responsible for financial accounting for cloud resources as a part of their job? Steve has a few thoughts today.

A New Word: mcfeely

mcfeely – adj. inexplicably moved by predictable and well-worn sentiments, even if they are trite or obvious or being broadcast blindly to the masses. I get mcfeely all the...

Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the database dashboards and how you can customize them. The other articles in this series on ADS works […]

The On-Call Load

Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.

Two Table Hints

Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger

As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated a lot of branches. Even though I’m a solo developer, I decided to use branches,...

Action Over Knowledge

A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

Reporting Services Editions