Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not bravery; it looks more like imagination – from Excellent Advice for Living What a neat...
2025-09-26
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Blog Posts
Prepping for Certification, Part 1 of ?
I thought it would be good to put my thoughts down on how to prepare for a certification. I don't know how many posts I will make on this,...
2025-09-26 (first published: 2025-09-04)
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Using Customer Docker Compose File Names
As I use containers more and more to run various things, I decided I not only wanted to set up docker compose files, I wanted to name them something...
2025-09-26 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I have learned that data quality management really comes down to building the right foundation from...
2025-09-25 (first published: 2025-09-23)
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Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
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2025-09-25
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Connect with your SQL Community on Slack
Slack is a popular tool for team interaction. To describe it quickly, it's a feature-rich persistent chat room, with threads,...
2025-09-25 (first published: 2017-05-04)
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Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty
Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear, markets shift, customer expectations evolve, and entire strategies can be rewritten in a single quarter....
2025-09-25
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How to Avoid Knowledge Stagnation
You want the short answer? Well, the only antidote to knowledge stagnation is probably embracing the habit of lifelong learning. For the long-winded answer, read on. Have you ever...
2025-09-24 (first published: 2025-09-04)
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How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM
I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment only available in the SQL Server 2025 preview version. I know, it’s not even available...
2025-09-24 (first published: 2025-09-05)
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SQL Server Is Slow – Part 2 of 4(?)
The 10-Minute Outside-In Triage Don’t Blame SQL First It’s 9:05 AM and your helpdesk lights up: “The SQL Server is down. Nothing works.” By 9:07, everyone is staring at...
2025-09-24
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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