Advice I Like: Take Two Trips
If you have any doubt about being able to carry a load in one trip, do yourself a huge favor and make two trips – from Excellent Advice for...
2025-05-23
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Blog Posts
DevOps Devour Hour Slides
Here are the slides from my talk today at the Redgate NYC Devour Hour: Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments.pptx The Repo is here: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime An interesting question on feature toggles:...
2025-05-23
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Solar-Powered, Proxmox-Driven: A Tour of My Ultimate SQL Server Home Lab
Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post about my Home Lab environment, which I had built around VMware vSphere to showcase various SQL Server workloads and demonstrate how...
2025-05-23 (first published: 2025-05-12)
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What’s new in SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.0
Three years ago, when the first public preview of SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.0) was announced, I was a few months in at the SQL Docs team, and had...
2025-05-23 (first published: 2025-05-19)
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Do Yourself a Favor, Check Out Woodler
I recently was privileged to speak at SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland… man, I love visiting Poland… Anyway… Great event. Worth your time to attend, and if you’re a speaker,...
2025-05-22
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Microsoft Build announcements
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and AI, and some were very impressive. Below are my favorites. Everything announced at Build can...
2025-05-22
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AI in the DBeaver Query Editor
You know I had to do it as soon as I found it was possible. Yes, I installed and enabled AI in the DBeaver Query Editor so I can...
2025-05-21 (first published: 2025-05-05)
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Checking Myself with GenAI
I had a suggestion from somone on a place where AI helps them and I decided to try it. The person had an AI summarize their work and if...
2025-05-21
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Redgate SQL Prompt in SSMS 21
Disclaimer: this post is not sponsored by Redgate 🙂 For those who’ve missed it, the new version of SSMS is now generally available. It’s a big new version and...
2025-05-21
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T-SQL Tuesday #186 - Agent Job History Visualization
I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools...
2025-05-21 (first published: 2025-05-13)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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