A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through...

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started to build this in PowerPoint. I decided to switch to Claude and ended up with...

Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!

Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals will take place! This hands-on session is designed to help DBAs, developers, and consultants...

Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview

One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work...

SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS

Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now runs successfully on Docker Desktop for macOS without needing OrbStack.

Advice I Like: Ranch Rules

Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a ranch rule. Leave something as you found it. If...

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes

After tempdb, msdb is often the most abused system database, growing unchecked until it tanks...

Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric

Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting governance. With Fabric OneLake and open table formats like Iceberg and Delta, there are now...

26ai Quick Tip for Database Links

It seems an odd thing that so many facilities on the cloud environment take advantage of the concept of stored database credentials when it comes to authenticating/authorising access to...