Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Atlanta 26) last week (see the FabCon keynote here). There were 8000 attendees! Here...

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

Originally published in 2023, this post never made it into Google's index, so I'm republishing it...

The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City

We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC. The Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City comes back on May 5, 2026. You...

Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025

I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL Server 2025. The latest version of mirroring that uses the SQL Server Change Feed is...

Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds

At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert thresholds in Redgate Monitor and decided to write a little about this. This is part...

A New Word: los vidados

los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might have forgotten completely if someone hadn’t happened to mention them again – friends of friends,...

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class on April 13-16, 2026, in Columbia, SC.

EightKB 2026

EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back…it’s all happening on August the 20th! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I lean heavily on FinOps. For me, it’s not just a framework — it’s the reality...

Finding and Updating Duplicate IDs: #SQLNewBlogger

Finding duplicates was an interview question for me years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it. Recently I got asked how to easily do this and delete them, so I...