Managed Instance Impressions
Today Steve asks about your view of Managed Instance. He has found many people like the offering quite a bit.
What is new in Copilot, the new features available
Learn how Daniel Calbimonte is using the AI in Bing to have some fun, write some code, and get help.
SQL Server Temporary Stored Procedures
Learn about creating stored procedures in the SQL Server tempdb database and why you might want to create temporary stored procedures.
Takeaways from Data Grillen 2024
Two days of Data, Beer and Bratwurst. What did it bring me, find out by reading this photo-rich article.
The Costs and Rewards of Speaking
Steve has had a good time sharing knowledge with others at events. He gives you a few thoughts on why you might join him at a future event.
How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach. One of the benefits of having a more code-based approach in data pipelines is that it has become easier to build metadata driven pipelines.
Empowering Lakehouse Users – Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to use the OneLake Explorer and Data Wrangler extension in VS Code to empower users to work with data in Microsoft Fabric.
Invisible Downtime
Steve has a few thoughts on invisible downtime, a term he had never heard until recently.
Troubleshoot SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL LogScout
We experienced several unplanned outages and failovers on our SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. We want to know the root cause to prevent them from happening in the future. How do we identify the root causes of unplanned Availability Group outages and failovers?
How Big Data Supports Gen AI
This article includes an overview of how big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models work together.
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Forums
Database security permissions save script
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Database security permissions save script
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression...
Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
See possible answers