In my planned failover walkthrough, I showed what happens when you deliberately move the primary role to another replica. That’s the easy case. Now I want to show what...
2026-04-19
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Howdy folks! Long time no write.
In this post, I will be answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
A quick refresh
If you haven’t read the...
2026-04-19
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When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned and unplanned failovers. The easy case is a planned failover, where you deliberately move the...
2026-04-20 (first published: 2026-04-19)
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I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal’s series on file header pages. If...
2026-04-18
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Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes in the responses. Every response had one or more of these themes woven into their...
2026-04-17
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This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and Aamir Lakhani- with great knowledge . during the session learned about OpenClaw and more. I...
2026-04-29 (first published: 2026-04-17)
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Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to delve into visualisation of vector embeddings that were generated from the restaurant data pulled from...
2026-04-29 (first published: 2026-04-17)
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DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster, deploy faster. But while we accelerate delivery, why not shorten the expense lifecycle as well?...
2026-04-17
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You have probably seen a couple of cool GROUP BY features that came with Oracle Database 26ai. You can check out the short video below but since you’re on...
2026-04-17
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A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB as the source) that I’ve managed to run into, twice. I’ve set up mirroring by...
2026-04-27 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
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