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...
2026-05-26
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As part of my wider work exploring Claude Code and AI-assisted database engineering, I have been looking at how AI can support SQL Server operations. A failed job, missed...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-17)
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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...
2026-05-25 (first published: 2026-05-13)
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Every major model out there can summarise documents, write code and answer multi step questions – then if you decide to go with a specific vendor based on costs...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-04)
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For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give a quick overview on the different models on offer within the Claude family – when...
2026-05-06 (first published: 2026-04-27)
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After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the various industries, I am placing a bet: agents will become the default interface for most...
2026-04-22
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Do you know what happens when you enable zonal redundancy for your SQL managed instance? Lets define it first (in the context of Business-Critical tier) – zonal redundancy is...
2025-07-16
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The Business Critical tier of Azure SQL Managed Instance offers the read-scale out feature enabling you to distribute read-only workloads such as reporting and analytics across built-in replicated secondary...
2025-07-15
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I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server databases to URL (from Azure VMs). If you recall you would use the storage key...
2025-05-09 (first published: 2025-04-23)
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Straight from Microsoft’s documentation “Microsoft Entra authentication is a mechanism of connecting to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server by using identities defined in Microsoft Entra ID. With Microsoft...
2025-02-12 (first published: 2025-02-03)
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By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
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By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
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Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
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After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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