T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally my go-to guy for data lakes and BI architecture. I am so tickled to be...
2026-03-10
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find new hosts over the last few years to keep this party going and to expand...
2026-03-10
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector databases — all comes together here! What is RAG? all the AI model has predefined...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-08)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 9: HuggingFace – The Home of AI Models
today on Day 9 I would like to talk about HuggingFace. if you are learning AI practically, HuggingFace is one of the most important platforms you will come across....
2026-03-09
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just getting into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve probably asked the same question I hear over and over:...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management wants everyone to be more productive with AI. Redgate Monitor isn’t immune from this wave....
2026-03-09
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Semantic Model Power Query vs Dataflow Gen2 in Fabric
In my recent blog post, Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric, I talked about the evolving authoring experience in Microsoft Fabric and how report development is increasingly moving...
2026-03-09
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TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on SQL Server performance and everything temporary / memory spill comes to tempdb and it is...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-02)
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The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control without the right practices in place. That’s where FinOps comes in—it’s a powerful...
2026-03-09
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong. A good question to ask yourself...
2026-03-06 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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