The PASS Data Community Summit On Guy in a Cube

I’ve known Adam and Patrick for a long time and I’m thrilled with the content they produce on their Guy in a Cube show. It’s a great resource for...

A Decade of Dedication – Celebrating 10 Years in Business

I am overjoyed to announce a momentous occasion – we have officially reached the remarkable milestone of being in business for 10 years! This incredible journey began with a...

A New Word: Merrenness

merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...

Book Review – Scalable Data Analytics with Azure Data Explorer

I recently finished the book Scalable Data Analytics with Azure Data Explorer (Modern ways to query, analyze, and perform real-time data analysis on large volumes of data), written by...

Copilot Experiments: A little PowerShell help

It’s been a little while since I’ve had time to relax a bit and try some AI help. This is another experiment I made. A user on SSC asked...

Friday Flyway Tips: Visualizing Undo Scripts

One nice thing with Flyway Enterprise is that it will automatically generate the undo scripts for migration scripts. However, it used to be that finding these and seeing the...

Getting list of protocols enabled in a SQL Server instance

protocols enabled in a SQL Server instance

There are number of ways you can find out what protocols are enable in a SQL Server...

Nine chapters of my data architecture book are available

As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...

One job to rule them all

Three batch jobs that run all night.Seven for the DBAs to maintain and protect.Nine quick little jobs run by the ... Continue reading

Finding Analogies with AI

I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the...