KDA: Echoes of Deception - Onboarding

I’ll walk through the KDA UI and tackle the first challenge before diving into the real cases.
The UI layout
This is what your layout might look like:

LHS menu where you...

SQL Saturday NYC Recap 2025

My first time at SQL Saturday New York City was an absolute blast! Thank you so much to the organizers and the incredible people who chatted with me during...

SQL Server Index Primer

Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question a lot, especially from developers and sysadmins who’ve been handed a SQL Server and told,...

SSMS 21

Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio...

A New Word: Lookaback

lookaback– n.  the chock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date – having grown up or...

Secure Azure SQL Server Backups Using Managed Identities

I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server databases to URL (from Azure VMs).  If you recall you would use the storage key...

Can AI Read Execution Plans?

Yeah, yeah, second AI post in a row. I promise not to make a habit of it. But I saw someone else mention that you can feed them XML...

Can You Restore Multiple Differential Backup Files?

Can you restore multiple differential SQL Server backups
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Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn–May 23

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in New York City for the Redgate DevOps Devour Hour Lunch and Learn. This is at the Industrious office at 730 3rd...

Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Interacting with Local LLMs Using PowerShell

As AI continues to evolve, many of us are looking for ways to leverage large language models (LLMs) without relying on cloud services. As we learned in my previous...