FabCon 2025 Recap

Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit,...

Distributed Availability Group Dashboard

The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...

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The Cost of Not Having a DBA

Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...

Advice I Like: Tipping

When in doubt, overtip – from Excellent Advice for Living This is close to my heart, since I spent a lot of time in college and after working as...

How Do You Pick Events in Extended Events?

A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...

Using AI for Data Conversion

I’m sure I’ve never mentioned that I’m an amateur radio operator. Like Vegans and Cross Fitters, we tend to be shy and withdrawn about our predilections. BWA-HA-HA! Ok, like...

Who are you? Building an identity map.

I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...

Why use XACT_ABORT?

This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by...

Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference recently. Here are all the new features that I found most interesting, with some...