Clearer Writing at Your Fingertips: Introducing Write Brief with AI (Beta)
From the team at Jetpack AI comes a new tool that will improve your writing in a flash.
2024-08-08 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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dbatools Required Filesystem Access for Database Restores
The Problem While performing an instance migration this spring, I happened upon something I didn’t expect in [dbatools](https://dbatools.io/). It should have been a simple backup/restore copy of the databases,...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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Monday Monitor Tips- Enabling Index Tracking in Redgate Monitor
There is a new index feature in Redgate Monitor, but it’s disabled by default. This post shows how to enable things. This is part of a series of posts...
2024-08-19 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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The Redgate Summit: New York
The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at...
2024-08-05
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PostgreSQL and Instrumentation
I’m still learning PostgreSQL and one of the things I’ve been looking at a lot lately is instrumentation. What do I mean? Well, if you’re in SQL Server, think,...
2024-08-23 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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How much space can I expect to recover from a rebuild after dropping a column?
In my last article - Identify Tables With Dropped Columns - we saw how we can identify tables that have columns that were dropped. Today, we are going to...
2024-08-05
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My Toolbox - SSMS
No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-08-03)
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A New Word: Bareleveling
bareleveling – v. trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’’ll end up calling...
2024-08-02
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Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
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SQL Training: The Hidden Engine Driving Business Growth
In the digital age, data is the new gold, but it's worthless if you can't understand and use it. That's where SQL (Structured Query Language) comes in. SQL is...
2024-08-02
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Car Update September 2026
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Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
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Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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