DBAs, Organizing Your SQL Scripts in Git

I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...

Dynamic Warehouse & Lakehouse Connections in Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines

When you develop data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric (the Azure Data Factory equivalent in Fabric, not to be confused with deployment pipelines), you will most likely have some activities...

MSSQL Database Property LastGoodCheckDbTime to Get the Last Successful DBCC CHECKDB on a Database

Database Property LastGoodCheckDbTime to Get the Last Successful DBCC CHECKDB on a Database

As one of the preventive database maintenance tasks, performing database integrity checks on almost every database you...

A New Word: Addleworth

addleworth – adj. unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for...

Using the Pure Storage PowerShellSDK2 - Part 5 - Checking Replication Status

Introduction Welcome back to the fifth installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2. In this post, we’re diving into a hands-on demonstration of using...

What I actually do at Microsoft

I started working at Microsoft in January 2022. I enjoy it. I even wrote a stream-of-consciousness post about it last year. A significant part of our job in the...

How to use a Script Activity in ADF as a Lookup

In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...

6 Surprising Things You Can Do on WordPress.com Without a Plugin 

Newsletters? Spam protection? Image galleries? We have you covered, no plugin needed.

How I Effortlessly Dockerize Python-Based AWS Lambda Functions

As a Software Engineer, i would like to learn how to dockerize my Python Fast API Framework and use this dockerize application in my lambda function. This will allow...

Talkie - a simple, private, responsive interface for LLMs

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I like using ChatGPT. But I don't like the $20/month price tag for using OpenAI's app, especially given the API costs fractions of a cent.
So...