T-SQL Tuesday #195 – How Has Your Code Aged
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invite comes from Pat Wright, who asks us to reflect on how our code has aged. Has it aged gracefully? Poorly? I’ll go with an example from early in my career that lands somewhere in the middle. To read the full T-SQL Tuesday invite, click the T-SQL logo to the right.…
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…
A Quick 2025 Review
It’s the end of 2025, so I thought I’d give a short yearly review of the blog and what to expect in the future. In 2025, as of 12/24, the site has had 55.7k page views. That’s about the same number as 2024, so not as much growth as previous years. I can’t say I’m…
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
Where did the year go? It’s the last T-SQL Tuesday of 2025. This month’s invite comes from Mike Walsh, who asks us to write a note to our past self and another note from our future self. The invite doesn’t reference A Christmas Carol, but I can’t help but think of writing these notes as…
Brainrot While You Wait
I had this article catch my eye based on a partially good name (the Chad part) about what could be the next evolution of IDEs. An upcoming vibe coding IDE, Chad: The Brainrot IDE, is being developed that will do its best to keep your attention while you wait for AI to complete your coding…
SQL Server 2025 is GA
As many expected, Microsoft kicked off their Microsoft Ignite conference today by announcing that SQL Server 2025 is now generally available with new features like built-in regex, AI capabilities, and more. Amongst the new features and changes, I noticed SQL Server 2025 Standard Edition gets a nice lift. From the SQL Server blog post linked…
T-SQL Tuesday #192 – Benefits of Two SQL Server 2025 Developer Editions
The T-SQL Tuesday invite for this month comes from Steve Jones, who invites us to write about what’s new with SQL Server 2025 that will make our jobs easier. Click the T-SQL Tuesday logo to read the full invite. I had written most of this blog post before seeing this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invite. I…
Losing Sleep with the Recent AWS Outage
Last week’s AWS outage caused many frustrations and lost sleep. Emphasis on lost sleep. While some scrambled to find out why websites like Reddit, Pinterest, and Spotify weren’t available, others were scrambling for comfort. Eight Sleep, a company selling elevating and temperature-controlled mattresses, had to deal with reports of their smart beds stuck at sweltering…
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