A Career of Memories
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate, I’ve participated in many events, some we hosted, some we sponsored. At most of these...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen the same patterns repeat: nightly index maintenance jobs running for hours, consuming massive CPU and...
2026-07-06 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and AI, and some were very impressive. Below are my favorites. I am prioritizing the data...
2026-07-01 (first published: 2026-06-18)
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T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited the community the blog about the idea of what would happen if we would need...
2026-06-19 (first published: 2026-06-18)
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No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve never tried it, but the batch separator has to be separate, which I’ll show. Another...
2026-07-08 (first published: 2026-06-17)
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Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server environment is the SQL Agent jobs. I can learn a tremendous amount about an organization...
2026-07-01 (first published: 2026-06-16)
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AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You open the terminal and go to work. This post is about what happens next —...
2026-06-16
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Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started using it when it was one of the easiest ways to sync files across machines...
2026-06-16 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic, an IP lookup table, and KQL's anomaly detection to find who did it.
2026-06-29 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 20th…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2026-06-26 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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Blogs
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
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