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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Blog Posts
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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How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure Data Factory instance (or Azure Synapse Pipelines) and you have a couple of linked services...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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