dataMinds Connect 2023 – Raiders of the Lost ADX slides

You can find the slides for the session that I gave with Johan at dataMinds Connect 2023 at GitHub. As usual, the event was amazing. A lot of great...

A NEW’er Solution For An Old Problem: How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA Around

How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA

When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...

Data Platform SLAs

Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective...

Microsoft Fabric roadmap

Microsoft Fabric is an awesome product that has now been in public preview for five months. If you are not familiar with it, check out my recent video where...

An Important Break

I left home last Tuesday for work, heading to New Jersey for work. Over the weekend, I took a side trip to see my daughter play volleyball at university,...

Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 4

Last week we have discussed how Null Values can cause a trouble in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3. This week I would like to draw your...

October Is National Disability Employment Awareness Month

As many of you know, I was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease a couple of years ago. Since then, I have 9 made it a personal mission...

Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission

Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...

Quick Tip: Taking advantage of Read-Only SQL Server replicas in your C# application

If you happen to be using C# there is a very easy way to set your application up to take advantage of Read-Only replicas.
Using this connection string: (Some portions...

A New Word: Ringlorn

ringlorn – adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as one depicted in old stories and folktales – a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths...