Do This Before You Contact Your SQL Server Consultant

Say you need outside help. You’ve exhausted all the things that you could do and, still, nothing works. So, you decide that calling in for help is the next...

Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform

I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the tenth consecutive year, recognized in the Azure SQL and SQL Server technical areas under Data...

Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation

Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile was a log line — useful for an audit trail, useless at 3am. v1.2.0 closes...

Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger

This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something new. I decided to verify what was in the article and do some research. The...

T-SQL Tuesday #200 - I Bet It's Bad if I See...

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Brent Ozar
(blog) asks us to fill in the blank:

When I’m looking at...

Azure – HorizonDB

As Open Source – PostgreSQL and AI is a growing and powerful DB system, AWS and Google already have AWS Aurora and Google AlloyDB, which are Cloud Native PostgreSQL...

A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO

A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO Over the past several weeks, many of you have probably noticed subtle hints throughout my blog. A...

Lean Six Sigma – Brief

When you have a project or system, it has to be optimized, tuned, and we must ensure it is consistently performing better. For this, we should use the Lean...

DataSaturday Rheinland – Slides

The slides for my session “The €100 data warehouse on the Azure data platform” can be found on GitHub. It was a calm event, probably because of the good...

T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals

NO AI was used to generate this content. Grammarly was used to check and correct language and sentences in parts. I just managed to get a post in for...