DBCC CHECKDB: Just Because It’s Quiet Doesn’t Mean It’s Safe
Corruption isn’t a “maybe someday” problem – what you need to do now. Stop. Don’t panic. You just ran DBCC CHECKDB for the first time in a while (or...
2025-08-13
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SQL Server 2025 Backups - New ZSTD Compression
Compression was introduced in SQL Server version 2008. While it helped, the compression ratios were frequently too low to justify the...
2025-08-13
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PASS Data Community Summit LinkedIn Contest
If you're not having success in convincing your organization to send you to this year's PASS Data Community Summit, you could win a 3-day registration by submitting some basic...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-12)
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Boost SQL Server Security with gMSA: Real-World Examples & PowerShell Scripts
When deploying SQL Server in enterprise environments, choosing the right service account model is critical for security, manageability, and scalability. Traditionally, DBAs have relied on standard domain accounts with static passwords,...
2025-08-12
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Andreas Wolter on Evading Data Access Auditing
There are always bad actors who will seek to get access to and, likely, exfiltrate (exfil) the data. But they don't want to get caught; they don't want to...
2025-08-11
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Adding a Named Default Constraint to a Table: #SQLNewBlogger
As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Using Python Code in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Why SQL Still Reigns in the Age of Cloud-Native Databases
In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity....
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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DevUp 2025 Recap
Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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How AI is Shaping Sustainable Textile Solutions
The textile world is undergoing a transformation, one where creativity meets computation, and tradition dances with technology. Artificial intelligence is not just automating processes; it is unlocking new dimensions...
2025-08-07
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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