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Don’t Update Your SQL Server

If you’ve downloaded SQL Server 2025 CU1 or SQL Server 2022 CU23 and plan to apply these updates, postpone that work. It’s been confirmed that these updates have some issues, the most significant being an issue that breaks Database Mail. Each release page has a note at the top stating that the update is temporarily…

T-SQL Tuesday #194 – Learning From Mistakes

The first T-SQL Tuesday invite of 2026 comes from Louis Davidson, asking to share a mistake others can learn from. We all make mistakes. Some have an immediate impact, and some creep up months or years down the road. I’d like to touch on an mistake from long ago with script versioning that wasn’t critical…

Is Needing a PC a Sign of Aging?

When it comes to making “big” purchases, I have to do it on a PC (desktop/laptop) rather than a phone. I thought I was weird in this way but recently saw this Reddit thread about other millennials having this problem. I don’t know if it’s the smaller screen that makes me feel like I’m missing…

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