AI Destroying Creativity or Creative Industry
In 2025, artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a central force in the creative world. From music and film to fashion, literature, and visual arts, AI is...
2025-07-04
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Blog Posts
DP-300 : How to Pass Azure Database Administrator Certification
As businesses increasingly migrate their databases to the cloud, the demand for skilled database administrators is skyrocketing. The DP-300: Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions certification is designed for professionals...
2025-07-04
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Exploring the Next Gen General Purpose Tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance
In a recent video, I took a hands-on look at the Next Gen General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance—and it brings some exciting advancements to the...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-19)
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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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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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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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