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A New Word: Lackout

lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all –...

2025-06-21

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Easily query your GitHub Contribution activity

For a variety of reasons, including your Microsoft MVP activity reports, you might want to summarize your GitHub activity across multiple repos. For contributors to Microsoft open-source docs on GitHub,...

2025-06-20 (first published: )

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A Career of Memories

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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead

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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...

Microsoft Build 2026 announcements

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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...

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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears

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BCP on Linux

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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database

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BCP on Linux

When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?

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