I still see a lot of confusion about the functionality of Microsoft Purview ever since multiple products were combined into it, so I wanted to write this blog to...
2025-10-26 (first published: 2025-10-15)
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I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places and wanted to try it locally. This If you want to get started, read my...
2025-10-24 (first published: 2025-10-13)
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Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily create database snapshots. This new version fixes a bug that we’ve found in version 2...
2025-10-24 (first published: 2025-10-02)
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I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-22)
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server in 2025 and your sa login is still usable, you’re giving attackers a giant, blinking...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-10-23 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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DBAs should never run SSMS under their everyday Windows account
If you open SSMS under the same Windows identity you use for email, browsing, and chat, you bring all that...
2025-10-22 (first published: 2025-10-07)
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It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the SQL Server that’s been quietly running for years is due for retirement. Maybe the hardware...
2025-10-22
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By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
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When exploring interior doors for your home renovation or new build, you’ve probably come...
Hello, I am leveraging Python within SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, primarily through...