Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026

For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report, based on surveys and research we do every year. I have found it very interesting...

Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022

Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022

If you’ve spent any time tuning SQL Server, you’ve probably heard “Turn...

Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric

Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting governance. With Fabric OneLake and open table formats like Iceberg and Delta, there are now...

A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through...

Advice I Like: Ranch Rules

Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a ranch rule. Leave something as you found it. If...

PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap

This is long overdue but life and distractions happened. It’s been a little over two months since I returned home from PASS Summit 2025.

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates...

Using AI for Git Hooks

Recently I had someone internally ask about whether SQL Source Control supports Git Hooks. Since it was after UK work hours, I decided to run a quick test. One...

Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview

One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work...

Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!

Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals will take place! This hands-on session is designed to help DBAs, developers, and consultants...