Microsoft Purview data governance best practices

Microsoft Purview can be the best data governance tool in the world, but it will still be useless if people do not know it exists, do not trust the...

AI Insights for Database Monitoring: A DBA’s Perspective

Second in a series on Ai and databases. One Story, three signals – I have a backup of a critical database that has failed three times, the recovery point...

Crash-Consistent MongoDB Snapshot and Restore with Everpure Fusion

I’ve been working on a project that combines two things I spend a lot of time with: MongoDB sharded clusters and Everpure FlashArrays. The goal is a production-grade backup...

AI and Data Engineering on the Edge: The Good, the Bad, and the Overhyped

Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone from a niche embedded concern to a default option on a lot of architecture diagrams....

UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger

While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on...

Deciphering Data Architectures Is Now Available in Multiple Languages

Since the release of my book Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh, I’ve been fortunate to hear from readers...

T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly community blogging event started by Adam Machanic in 2009. Each month a...

Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It

You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but one task keeps running while all others have long since completed. The culprit is almost...

Error Deploying GraphQL in Fabric: dm_exec_describe_first_result_set

A while ago we suddenly had an error while trying to deploy one Fabric workspace to another using fabric-cicd. The issue was with a GraphQL object and the following...

SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO

SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO

The purpose of this article is to introduce a PowerShell script that I wrote and published on...