Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into an incident. A log file fills up, backups fall behind, and by the time anyone...
2026-07-29
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Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into an incident. A log file fills up, backups fall behind, and by the time anyone...
2026-07-29
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I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API Builder. In that post I showed how to query the MCP server from VSCode, but...
2026-08-10 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included in that announcement were high level details about MDASH with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, which is reported to...
2026-08-07 (first published: 2026-07-28)
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If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The SQL MCP Server is a part of the Data API Builder (DAB). DAB is a...
2026-08-05 (first published: 2026-07-27)
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Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against a local Azure SQL Database Developer container — the same engine as the cloud, running...
2026-08-10 (first published: 2026-07-26)
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I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came to be. I decided that is a good topic to ramble about, so here goes....
2026-08-07 (first published: 2026-07-25)
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Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet Access. But enabling them disables several features.
The post Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network...
2026-07-31 (first published: 2026-07-24)
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Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That works until the bill arrives.
A classification job that returns one word costs...
2026-08-05 (first published: 2026-07-24)
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“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.” – from Excellent Advice for Living I’ve worked with a lot of people...
2026-07-31 (first published: 2026-07-24)
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Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement for and update to my April 2022 post, Power BI Performance Features. That post focused...
2026-08-03 (first published: 2026-07-23)
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers