A Look at the Straight Path Ahead
January 7, 2026
I have been wavering for two weeks between one big, Walsh-sized, long post trying to wrap up our 2025 and talk a bit about the early tea leaves for 2026 and beyond, and two separate posts. But this will be fun – I’m going to try and sum up a year and talk about some
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes To Ourselves (Recap Post)
January 6, 2026
I didn’t participate this year – but I would probably have something to say learn more about the cloud, spend a lot more time looking at your own feet/hands and ahead a bit and don’t worry so much about the things that scare you. Be curious and explore. This recap is pretty late so there
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
December 2, 2025
I last hosted T-SQL Tuesday back in 2010 (T-SQL Tuesday #4 IO), I guess it’s been a minute! This month, let’s get a little reflective/introspective. Call it an end-of-year wrap-up theme. We all have those moments where we look back and think, “I spent a lot of energy worrying about the wrong thing(s)…” After some
SQL Server Vulnerability Alert: CVE-2025-59499
November 12, 2025
This isn’t in the SQL Server Regrets series of posts, but another great band from that era once started a song with, “Stop me, oh stop me… Stop me if you think that you’ve heart this one before… Stop me, oh oh oh , Stop me. Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this
Good, Clean, Fair: It’s Time for a Slow Data Movement
November 3, 2025
When you sit down at Rick Bayless’ Topolobampo restaurant, you aren’t rushed into a menu. Instead, you start on a narrated journey. You hear about Chef’s own experience of Mexico. You are told and can read about that journey. As you go on this vicarious journey, it’s brought to life before you with each thoughtfully
Hyper-V and SQL Server Best Practices: What We Wish You Knew
October 29, 2025
If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why does my SQL Server seem slower on Hyper-V than it should be?!”, this post might help. And if you asked me about Hyper-V ten years ago, I’d probably have laughed. Maybe even less than that. But here’s the thing: it scales, it works, and with the Broadcom/VMware “fun” squeezing
Temptation – When The Cloud Looks Like Heaven (but isn’t…)
October 21, 2025
A heaven? A gateway? A hope? Let’s continue the SQL Server Regrets series… The planned next post was about the cloud anyway, my reminder for this post was the really long day a lot of tech folks relying heavily on AWS experienced today… Another cloud-based DNS related outage/wave of interruptions. A heaven….. A hope?- Someone
SQL Server Backups and the Illusion of Safety: Confusion
October 14, 2025
With the recent data center fire and missing government data in South Korea, it felt like a good time to continue with the SQL Server Regrets series of blog posts. We’ll talk about the confusion of thinking you are covered for recoverability – when you just aren’t. This “Regret” comes up far too often when
The Age of Data Advocates Has Begun
October 7, 2025
I watched Bob Ward demo vector search in SQL Server at the NYC PASS road show in late August, and I have a confession that I’m not proud of. I felt that little knot in my stomach that every DBA knows too well. His pre-recorded PowerPoint videos typed a few commands, asked questions in natural
Our Next Chapter – Welcoming Buck Woody and Launching CDO as a Service
October 6, 2025
You can also read from Buck in his own words in this post, published here. “Oh, hi, don’t mind us – we’re just having a little conversation about SQL Server. I’m so glad you can join us. There are seats up front here...” That was the first time I ever heard words from Buck Woody