My 2024 in Data: Speaking
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...
2024-12-17
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The Voice of the DBA
My 2024 in Data: Travels
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...
2024-12-16
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Playing with the Data API Builder
I published an article today on the Data API Builder, which is a way of presenting your database tables as a REST or GraphQL API for developers. You can...
2024-12-27 (first published: 2024-12-13)
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A New Word: Dolonia
dolonia – n. a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone...
2024-12-13
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A Very Cool Benefit in SSMS 21
I saw a post from Erin that Preview 2 is available. I’d gotten a message when I started SSMS v21 this morning, but got distracted. I made a short...
2024-12-25 (first published: 2024-12-11)
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AI Helping with an API
Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Scenario One of the things...
2024-12-11
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Creating a “Real” Copy of a View: #SQLNewBlogger
I saw a post where a developer was trying to read the Information Schema views to create a copy of a view as a “real” table, a user table....
2024-12-23 (first published: 2024-12-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #181: A Technology Present
It’s the last T-SQL Tuesday of the year, and it’s amazing to think we’ve gotten to #181. That’s over 15 years of monthly blog parties. This month we have...
2024-12-10
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Grinding Away: Brent Ozar
Brent Ozar is a very successful DBA/consultant/speaker/business owner in the data platform space. Many of you have likely seen him speak, read his blog, used his sp_Blitz script, or...
2024-12-20 (first published: 2024-12-09)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Am I Patched?
One of the things that I think is neat is that Redgate Monitor helps you track patching on your systems. This is something that has been challenging in every...
2024-12-16 (first published: 2024-12-09)
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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