Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a few people thinking and commenting on their own experiences. I decided to write a few...
2026-04-10 (first published: 2026-04-01)
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Blog Posts
Who Are You Doing It For?
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed to ask a critical question, "Who am I doing this for?" When I agree to...
2026-04-10 (first published: 2026-03-30)
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Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but I’ve also watched teams stumble during adoption. FinOps sounds simple in theory: collaborate, track costs,...
2026-04-09
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Atlanta 26) last week (see the FabCon keynote here). There were 8000 attendees! Here...
2026-04-08 (first published: 2026-03-26)
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Google Moves Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography are susceptible to Shor's Algorithm in quantum cryptography. Cracking those algorithms with classical computing is...
2026-04-08 (first published: 2026-03-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new to this blog party, I encourage you to check out the rules. If you are...
2026-04-07
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Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert thresholds in Redgate Monitor and decided to write a little about this. This is part...
2026-04-06 (first published: 2026-03-23)
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The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025
A while back I posted about a couple of side projects that I’ve been working on when I get the chance. One of those was the Burrito Bot…a bot...
2026-04-06 (first published: 2026-03-27)
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SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this feature encrypts a physical layer of Database files Data/log files protection at Disk / storage...
2026-04-04 (first published: 2026-04-03)
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A Las Vegas Break
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for the Red Rock Rave volleyball tournament with a team of 13 year olds. We’ve been...
2026-04-03
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Blogs
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
By Zikato
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic,...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced!...
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identity increments by 10,000 when it was supposed to be 1
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers