Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Hyper-V Edition

If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, you’ve seen this technique work on bare-metal and standard VM deployments where database files live on volumes directly presented to...

Claude Context Window

Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text Claude can work with in a single chat — your messages, its replies, uploaded files,...

Creating a Pulsing Conducting Baton - Part 1

Train Wreck
The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster...

Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log

Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log

If you work with SQL Server long enough, you or someone will eventually want to know, “Did...

Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog

Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer a search engine. it is a Major IT company in the industry. having strong base...

PowerShell Newbie – Variables

This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...

VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same frustrating issue. Applications and SSMS sessions that had been rock-solid for years suddenly started throwing...

Claude Desktop

Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated outputs, integrations, execution capabilities, memory and reusable workflows. This is a quick introduction to some...

The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP

Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I retired from 3Cloud going on full time disability due to ALS, and I was awarded...

Claude.ai vs Claude API

You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and mobile apps) is the chat product you talk to. The Claude API is the developer...