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,...

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...

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...

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...

Voxxed Days Zurich

That was my first experience at a Voxxed Days event. Obviously I like Oracle-focussed events, but that can give you a blinkered view of the world. There’s a lot...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

Originally published in 2023, this post never made it into Google's index, so I'm republishing it...