Balancing Life with a Career–Slides
I had a great time at SQL Saturday Atlanta 2026 this past weekend. I had some good comments and a few questions. I’ll write a bit more on this,...
2026-03-16
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Blog Posts
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage your database code as a project and see what changes are being built. However, many...
2026-03-16 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps) is an integrated data and analytics platform designed for modern data-driven workloads, such as data...
2026-03-16 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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Advice I Like: Knots
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand. For the rest of your life, you’ll use this knot more times than you would...
2026-03-13
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI, Today on Day 3 I would like to write about LLM models — Open Source...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-02-23)
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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as cloud adoption has matured, I’ve come to realise that building and running great systems isn’t...
2026-03-12
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Thank you after 21 years
Throughout my long history of working with the Oracle Database, there are some things that often just take for granted, on the assumption that they have always been present....
2026-03-12
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Critical SQL Server Security Patch Alert: CVE-2026-21262 – Patch Today and Start Planning Your Upgrade
I hate writing these posts. On March 10, 2026, Microsoft dropped a security update that fixes CVE-2026-21262 – an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in SQL Server. If you’ve got...
2026-03-11
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Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as a crucial bridge between innovation and implementation. Whether you are fine-tuning code, testing new features,...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers