If you're not having success in convincing your organization to send you to this year's PASS Data Community Summit, you could win a 3-day registration by submitting some basic...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-12)
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When deploying SQL Server in enterprise environments, choosing the right service account model is critical for security, manageability, and scalability. Traditionally, DBAs have relied on standard domain accounts with static passwords,...
2025-08-12
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There are always bad actors who will seek to get access to and, likely, exfiltrate (exfil) the data. But they don't want to get caught; they don't want to...
2025-08-11
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As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity....
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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The textile world is undergoing a transformation, one where creativity meets computation, and tradition dances with technology. Artificial intelligence is not just automating processes; it is unlocking new dimensions...
2025-08-07
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On August 6, 2025, Microsoft announced a vulnerability with hybrid deployments because of a shared service principal between the Exchange on-premises deployment and Exchange Online. The vulnerability is found...
2025-08-07
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In today’s hybrid and multi-cloud world, managing SQL Server instances across diverse environments can be a daunting task. Enter Azure Arc—Microsoft’s game-changing solution that brings the power of Azure to...
2025-08-07
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By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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