Just one more thing, an essay on troubleshooting
Over the weekend I watched — for the first time in my life — an episode of the long-running ABC and NBC police show Columbo,… Read More »Just one more thing, an essay on troubleshooting
Choco upgrade, y’all
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, like the built-in package managers on Linux, and third-party ones on macOS like Homebrew and MacPorts. The idea… Read More »Choco upgrade, y’all
If I can’t use PWDENCRYPT, how am I supposed to use HASHBYTES?
For this week, here is a short post about reinventing the wheel. An interesting conversation happened on Twitter where Dave Dustin asked: “Does anybody have… Read More »If I can’t use PWDENCRYPT, how am I supposed to use HASHBYTES?
On bias
Last week saw the second month of my employment at Microsoft. I admit that I’m enjoying my job, and I can’t deny that the reduced… Read More »On bias
A new book is on its way
I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft Press (Pearson) has agreed to let us do another Inside Out book this year. This news is so… Read More »A new book is on its way
You can’t secure your network with spite
I wrote a post a couple weeks ago about not changing port 1433 for security reasons. I received this comment, which is not visible on… Read More »You can’t secure your network with spite
How do I merge a small part of a Git repo into another repo?
At my new day job, one of the things we want to do is migrate a portion of a really large Git repository (over 20GB)… Read More »How do I merge a small part of a Git repo into another repo?
Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security reasons
Since we’re on a recent theme of revising long-held best practices that are not, here’s a timely one for you: Don’t change your default SQL… Read More »Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security reasons
The denial-of-service attack is coming from inside the house
A short post this week. While I was helping some friends recently, we experienced a curious thing where as soon as an application was started… Read More »The denial-of-service attack is coming from inside the house
Checking accessibility in your day-to-day work
Last year I wrote a series of posts about accessibility as it relates to presentations, and one aspect which I didn’t cover is within the… Read More »Checking accessibility in your day-to-day work
Database Projects 101 in Azure Data Studio (Calgary Data User Group)
On Wednesday February 23rd, 2022, the Calgary Data User Group will be hosting our first user group session of the year, featuring Warwick Rudd. The… Read More »Database Projects 101 in Azure Data Studio (Calgary Data User Group)
Don’t optimize for ad hoc workloads as a best practice
(This post was co-authored by Erik Darling.) The more things stay the same, the more they change… No, that’s not a mistake. In fact, it’s… Read More »Don’t optimize for ad hoc workloads as a best practice
Join me in Germany in June
I have been selected to speak at the DataGrillen conference later this year. I will be presenting my session How Does SQL Server Store That Data Type?,… Read More »Join me in Germany in June
A new chapter begins
In 2012 when I originally founded Born SQL, I never imagined I would find myself a five-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award,… Read More »A new chapter begins
SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works
Edited on 12 January 2023: You can run a SQL Server Docker container on Apple M1 and M2 Silicon Last month I wrote a blog post… Read More »SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works