Moving to Rancher Desktop
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop and desktop. However, a corporate decision was made to move to Rancher Desktop, so I...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-16)
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Blog Posts
Speaking Engagements 2025
It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.
2025-07-03
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ADF: Publish suddenly includes everything where it used to be incremental changes since the last publish
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted to republish every single object, claiming they were new, despite having incrementally published changed objects...
2025-07-02 (first published: 2025-06-15)
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PASS Summit on Tour in New York City
The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with an August stop in New York City. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go...
2025-07-02
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SQL Server Agent Jobs: Set It and Forget It?
Useful tips to make your jobs more stable Too many IT teams treat SQL Server Agent jobs like a coffee timer “Set it and forget it!” Unfortunately, that mindset...
2025-07-02 (first published: 2025-06-11)
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SQL Server Errorlog: Not Just for Errors!
A Goldmine of Clues You Might Be Ignoring SQL Server’s Error Logs often get overlooked, until something breaks. But if you know how to use them, they can tell...
2025-07-02
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Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do these correlate with Developers’ Stances Towards AI at work, 2024
AI is deemed to be the new superpower. Adoption of AI in various capacities is at 72% across industries, world wide, according to one study, and it does not...
2025-07-01
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Salesforce CDC Data Integration
(2025-June-30) Working with different abbreviations or acronyms can speed up communication, but at the same time, it can exclude those who are not familiar with them. Sometimes this exclusion happens...
2025-07-01 (first published: 2025-06-30)
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EightKB 2025 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2025 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 21st…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2025-06-30
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Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building a new data integration solution. You’d establish connections to one or more source datasets, review...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-16)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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