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A New Word: Zverism

zverism – n.  the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...

2025-03-28

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EightKB 2025

EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...

2025-03-28 (first published: )

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On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...

2025-03-26 (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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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

By Kumar Abhishek

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BCP on Linux

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

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