The CDO’s Playbook for AI Driven Decision Making
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no longer about governance alone. It is about vision. It is about turning data into the...
2025-10-02
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The SQL Professor
The Feedback Multiplier: How Leaders Can Turn Input into Innovation
In every organization there is a hidden currency more valuable than capital, more enduring than strategy, and more transformative than technology. That currency is feedback. Leaders who learn to...
2025-10-22 (first published: 2025-09-29)
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Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty
Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear, markets shift, customer expectations evolve, and entire strategies can be rewritten in a single quarter....
2025-09-25
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Automating SQL Maintenance: How DevOps Principles Reduce Downtime
In the world of modern data infrastructure, SQL databases remain the backbone of enterprise applications. They power everything from e-commerce platforms to financial systems, and their reliability is non-negotiable....
2025-09-22
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Accelerating AI with Confidence: Why Microsoft Purview is Key to Responsible Innovation
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the way we work, create, and make decisions. From generative assistants to predictive analytics, AI is...
2025-10-13 (first published: 2025-09-18)
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Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries. They are navigators of complexity, interpreters of signals, and stewards of trust. Technology has transformed...
2025-09-15
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From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly efficient, OLTP systems were the workhorses of enterprise data. They handled the daily grind: purchases,...
2025-10-08 (first published: 2025-09-11)
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From Chaos to Clarity: How Microsoft Purview Streamlines Data Governance
In today’s digital landscape, data is both a strategic asset and a potential liability. Organizations are generating vast amounts of information across cloud platforms, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments....
2025-09-08
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Demystifying Fabric Workspaces: The Nerve Center of Your Data Universe
It always starts the same way. You open your laptop on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, ready to tackle the week, only to spend the first hour hunting...
2025-09-29 (first published: 2025-09-04)
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Secure Your SQL Estate: Best Practices for Azure SQL Security
The Castle and the Keys Imagine your Azure SQL environment as a sprawling digital estate – a castle of data, with towers of insight and vaults of sensitive information....
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-02)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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