If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.
The post...
2026-07-06 (first published: 2026-06-22)
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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen the same patterns repeat: nightly index maintenance jobs running for hours, consuming massive CPU and...
2026-07-06 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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The idea behind Fabric OneLake Security (which GA’d on April 2026) is to centralize data access controls at the data layer, rather than configuring security separately for every Fabric...
2026-07-06
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Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate, I’ve participated in many events, some we hosted, some we sponsored. At most of these...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got back from a week long vacation in May, cruising with my family. Usually my trips...
2026-07-03
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It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That is the whole charm of Redshift Serverless: you stop thinking about nodes and resizes. It...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of it, nobody’s fixed it, it’s just there — a handful of small compliance gaps that...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-07-02)
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In all recent versions of the database you can call DBMS_UTILITY.EXPAND_SQL_TEXT to get the “true” version of a SQL that the database will run. It takes your SQL as...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-07-02)
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I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a backspace key relatively quickly on most keyboards. That and a space bar. AI helps me...
2026-07-01
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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and AI, and some were very impressive. Below are my favorites. I am prioritizing the data...
2026-07-01 (first published: 2026-06-18)
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By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers