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The Cost of Not Having a DBA

Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...

Advice I Like: Tipping

When in doubt, overtip – from Excellent Advice for Living This is close to my heart, since I spent a lot of time in college and after working as...

How Do You Pick Events in Extended Events?

A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...

Who are you? Building an identity map.

I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...

Query to Email….Well Formatted Email

When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...

Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory

Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...

CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger

We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it was a good intro, but as someone noted in the comments, how do you use...

Why Your SQL Server Backups Aren’t Enough

SQL Server backups are database insurance – you don’t really appreciate them until disaster strikes. But here’s the kicker: having backups doesn’t mean your data is safe. If you’re...

T-SQL Tuesday #185–Being a Video Star

This month we have an interesting invite. Erik Darling is the host, and since he does a lot of video blogs, he’s asking for a video submission for T-SQL...