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
81 reads
Blog Posts
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
26 reads
Salesforce CDC Data Integration
(2025-June-30) Working with different abbreviations or acronyms can speed up communication, but at the same time, it can exclude those who are not familiar with them. Sometimes this exclusion happens...
2025-07-01 (first published: 2025-06-30)
104 reads
EightKB 2025 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2025 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 21st…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2025-06-30
65 reads
Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building a new data integration solution. You’d establish connections to one or more source datasets, review...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-16)
433 reads
Quick Wins with GenAI
The more I look to GenAI to save me minutes, short periods of time, the better it works. Here’s an example of something I do regularly where AI helps....
2025-06-30
256 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #187: It’s Extended Events. It’s Always Extended Events
Joe Fleming wants to know how I solve weird problems. I’m not sure I’m actually qualified to answer this question since I, myself, am a weird problem, but I’ll...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-10)
342 reads
Why Not Just Use VARCHAR(MAX)?
A while ago I was looking into some odd errors that were cropping up in an application, when I spotted that all the columns in a table were defined...
2025-06-30
55 reads
A Six Week Break
Today is my last day of work for six weeks. I start my sabbatical Monday, or maybe this afternoon, and will be gone. I may or may not blog,...
2025-06-27
63 reads
Advice I Like: Focus on what’s important
Don’t let someone else’s urgency becomes your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. –...
2025-06-27 (first published: 2025-06-13)
449 reads
Blogs
Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Forums
Removing TDE
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Removing TDE
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Question of the Day
Removing TDE
How do I remove TDE encryption of data from database xxx?
See possible answers