2025-11-23
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Dead Reckoning
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would have expected, even if they were only an abstract presence in your life, like a...
2025-11-21
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A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Stateful Backup and Recovery
Explore methods, tools and best practices for protecting data in databases, memory caches, storage systems and other stateful applications.Featured image by bangoland on Shutterstock.Kubernetes is a very powerful and...
2025-11-21
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Managing subscribers, creating newsletters
When I created the website on WordPress, I was expecting all the features I had on our WordPress.com which powers this website. As I called out in my previous...
2025-11-21 (first published: 2025-11-20)
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PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Slides and Code
Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation! I will have a more comprehensive post in the coming days. Slides and demo...
2025-11-21
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PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are mechanisms to get slides from every speaker who uploaded them. This slide deck is the...
2025-11-21
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SQL Server Database Migration Pitfalls
SQL Server Database Migration Pitfalls (and How to Fix Them)
Database migrations are where great product ideas go to die—unless you plan for SQL Server’s quirks and the realities of...
2025-11-21 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures must be accurate A good reporting solution can be trusted. A bad one causes confusion...
2025-11-21 (first published: 2025-11-02)
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Power BI PBIR Format Admin Setting
The Power BI Enhanced Report Format (PBIR) will soon become the default, and that’s a good thing because it significantly makes git integration easier. You can already enable it...
2025-11-20 (first published: 2025-11-18)
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Finding the Last Last Name in SQL: #SQLNewBlogger
I wrote a piece on the new SUBSTRING in SQL Server 2025 and got asked a question. How do we get the last last name, such as only getting...
2025-11-19
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
By Vinay Thakur
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)
By SQLPals
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Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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