Hybrid user group meetings can be good. And by 'hybrid user group meetings' I mean user group meetings that are a mix of remote and in-person, not user group meetings…

At the Microsoft Build conference this week, the biggest of the data-focused announcements was about Microsoft Fabric. I'd had a lot of conversations about Fabric under NDA agreements in the…

Well, Tomaz said ChatGPT rather than AI, but I'm going to comment on AI in general. And I know this post will date very quickly, but that's expected. Right now…

The topic this month (from Reitse Eskens - @2meterDBA) is about “Fun T-SQL”. Now, I remember writing T-SQL to create palindromes once. It’s over at https://www.itprotoday.com/sql-server/palindromes-puzzle-solutions, and dates back to…

T-SQL Tuesday this month sees Damien Jones (@amamzonwebshark) ask about our wishlist for OpenAI in the Microsoft space. Normally I'd have spent a week thinking about the T-SQL Tuesday topic,…

This month, Deepthi Goguri (@dbanuggets) asks us about our favourite new feature in SQL Server 2022 or Azure. And while there are always a few, I'm going to write about…

"If best-practice was always worth following, they'd take the option away." I don't know who said this - certainly it's something that I've said before. It's not entirely true, but…

I remember two years ago when 2020 ended, people figured life would return to how it was in the beforetimes. Here we are two years later and the predictions that…

This internal procedure is new in Azure SQL DB in 2022. I think it presents a significant change to the way we do things in the world of SQL, and…

Tom Zika (@Zikato25) asks "What quality makes code production grade?" And... I'm not sure I know the answer. I'm a consultant, so I see quite a lot of organisation's "production…