Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases years ago. I did not wake up one day and decide, “I am going to...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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The SQL Professor
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change the way developers and DBA’s interact with data. Over the years, we have seen incremental...
2025-11-26 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is critical. That’s why I’ve relied on Redgate Monitor at different points in my career. It...
2025-11-17 (first published: 2025-11-02)
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Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced platforms and the most ambitious strategies collapse under the weight of doubt. For Chief Data...
2025-10-30
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Designing for Observability in Fabric Powered Data Ecosystems
In today’s data-driven world, observability is not an optional add-on but a foundational principle. As organizations adopt Microsoft Fabric to unify analytics, the ability to see into the inner...
2025-10-27
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Leadership in Times of Change: Guiding Teams Through Uncertainty, Disruption, and Transformation
Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-11-12 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build pipelines, connect sources to sinks, and hope the pipes do not burst under pressure. That...
2025-11-05 (first published: 2025-10-17)
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From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of the enterprise. Their office lights burned late into the night as they combed through spreadsheets...
2025-10-14
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Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing everything into a single attic. The attic was called the data warehouse, and while it...
2025-10-29 (first published: 2025-10-09)
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From Firefighting to Future‑Building: SQL Server 2025 and the New DataOps Mindset
There are moments in technology when the ground shifts beneath our feet. Moments when the tools we once thought of as reliable utilities suddenly become engines of transformation. SQL...
2025-10-06
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
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Think LSNs Are Unique? Think Again - Preventing Data Loss in CDC ETL
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The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
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A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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