Microsoft MVP 2025: Continuing the Data Platform Journey

I am honored to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the ninth consecutive year, recognized in the Azure SQL and SQL Server technical areas...

What is KTLO? Keep The Lights On vs Project Work in Agile

🔍 Demystifying KTLO: A Deep Dive into Keep The Lights On Work in IT and Agile In the realm of IT operations and software development, not all tasks are...

The PASS Summit on Tour in Dallas

The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with a September stop in Dallas. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go back to...

SQL Server Auto-settings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Settings That Could Be Hurting Your Performance If you’ve ever created a new SQL Server database and just left the default settings alone, you’re not alone. Microsoft provides a...

Bad Request Error when Running PowerShell Command in Azure Devops

I needed to run a PowerShell cmdlet in an Azure Devops pipeline. The cmdlet in question was New-AzRoleAssignment, but the cmdlet itself isn’t important. What is important is that...

T-SQL Tuesday 188 - Growing the Younger Data Community and Speakers

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, John Sterrett
(blog) asks us:

What are you doing, or what can we do...

Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs YouTube Channel

In my YouTube subscriptions feed, a new video for the Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs channel popped up and when I went to it, I noticed that the...

T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community

This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has been a great help in multiple communities over the years, and he has quite an...

Unveiling the Legacy: POSTGRES to Modern Open-Source Powerhouse

PostgreSQL, often referred to as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system that has evolved over decades. It is known for its reliability, feature richness, and strong community...

Capturing errors and auditing in Azure SQL DB

Logging is a necessity in the database world, well, the entire tech world. You need to know what is happening in and around your databases. It’s easy to setup...