Keynotes in Australia and New Zealand
I get to do the SQL in the City Summit keynotes in Australia and New Zealand. I’m excited, following the footsteps of Kendra Little and Donovan Brown, who have...
2019-05-21
18 reads
The Voice of the DBA
Clearing an Email from the Microsoft Directory
Years ago I was working on a demo with Microsoft and someone added me to their VSTS (now Azure DevOps) project. Somehow, I got an account in the Live/Passport/Joe-Schmo...
2019-05-20
23 reads
Moving to Serverless for Azure SQL DB
After the announcement of Serveless Azure SQL Datbase at //build/, I decided to give it a try. I have some Basic databases, so what would Serverless mean for me?...
2019-05-31 (first published: 2019-05-15)
913 reads
Puzzles–T-SQL Tuesday #114
This month we have a very interesting topic from Matthew McGiffen. He gets back to the roots of the party with code by asking a question on puzzles. It’s...
2019-05-14
37 reads
A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt
I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...
2019-05-13
121 reads
Always Use Roles–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Which of these is more complex? GRANT SELECT...
2019-05-23 (first published: 2019-05-10)
597 reads
Launching ADS from SSMS
If you haven’t heard, SSMS v18 went GA (Generally Availability) recently. You can download it from Microsoft, though if you have a preview version, you do need to uninstall...
2019-05-17 (first published: 2019-05-06)
564 reads
Initialize-HgsServiceName Fails in VMWare
A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
148 reads
More Software Quality with DevOps and CD
Tomorrow is the SQL in the City Summit in London. Right now I’m in a Heathrow airport hotel, finalizing some prep for the event. I have to run a...
2019-04-29
14 reads
SQLServerCentral Design–bbPress
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other...
2019-04-26
51 reads
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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