SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate Available
For those testing SQL Server 2025 before it officially releases, Microsoft has made the first release candidate available. There's a lengthy article on all the new features that are...
2025-08-26
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression and Restore Review
SQL Server 2025 In my previous blog post, we briefly covered the new compression being introduced in SQL Server 2025. After some...
2025-08-26
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Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of Cloud Costs (Let’s have some fun!) – Scooby Dooing Episode 1
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in consulting, it’s that SQL Server, and other database performance tuning isn’t just about faster queries—it’s directly tied to your bottom line in...
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-08-25)
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Fabric Real Time Data: Making the Shift from Batch to Live Insights
Embracing the New Paradigm Fabric real-time data signals a fundamental shift in how organizations transform raw information into actionable insights. For decades, leaders have relied on batch processing as...
2025-09-17 (first published: 2025-08-25)
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Get required permissions for DMVs
Part of my job at work is to update Transact-SQL reference content. System dynamic management views (DMVs) have permissions that are managed in the SQL Server Database Engine source...
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-23)
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A New Word: Rivener
rivener – n. a chilling hint of distance that creeps slowly into a relationship – beginning to notice them laugh a little less, look away a little more, explain...
2025-08-22
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AI and Cybersecurity: the Genie is Out of the Bottle
Today's reality is that cybercriminals are increasingly using AI to develop better attacks. This is just the latest reported technique, probably because it's starting to be used more often....
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-08-21)
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The Strategic Imperative of SQL Performance Tuning in Azure
Aligning Technical Excellence with Organizational Agility Tuning SQL performance in Azure transcends routine database management and becomes a strategic imperative when viewed through an executive lens. Slow database operations...
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-08-21)
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Adding SQL Server 2025 to my Laptop
I wanted to do some testing of SQL Server 2025 on my laptop. I have written before how I avoided installing SQL Server on the laptop and use containers...
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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SQL Server Backups: The Basics
If you’re responsible for a SQL Server instance, you need working, consistent backups. Not just a .bak file here and there, but a plan that runs automatically and covers...
2025-08-20
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Blogs
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
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