2025-10-26
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Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition
In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog using SQL Server 2025’s new native REST API integration. But what if you’re still running...
2025-11-12 (first published: 2025-10-25)
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Advice I Like: Training Employees
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)
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SQL Server Migration Overview
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the SQL Server that’s been quietly running for years is due for retirement. Maybe the hardware...
2025-10-22
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Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server in 2025 and your sa login is still usable, you’re giving attackers a giant, blinking...
2025-11-10 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Leadership in Times of Change: Guiding Teams Through Uncertainty, Disruption, and Transformation
Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-11-12 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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The End of Year Vacation Burn
It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve gotten away from work quite a bit this year. I’ve had a few vacations around...
2025-10-20
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2025
In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.
Thursday, November 20th at 1 PM I will be in the...
2025-10-20
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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