Time to Change Your Team

Many of you can't choose your team, or even change teams if you want, but from an organizational perspective, it might be the right thing to do. Whether you like it or not.

A New Word: Skidding

skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt. I used to make lots of sarcastic comments. Some...

Backing up the Database Encryption Key

Technology Fears

Steve is asking today what technology scares you.

Using SQL Compare in Read-Only Databases

Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...

Using Copilot to help me update SQL Saturday

An interesting AI experiment here with Copilot from GitHub in handling some code I don’t work with that often. Read on and watch. This is part of a series...

Using Outer Joins

What's New for the Microsoft Data Platform

What do you think will be announced today by Microsoft.

Cloud Sources for the Data Migration Assistant

Idempotent

There are all sorts of coding practices that produce better code. Steve Jones talks about one today.