Episode 252: The Cumulative Update Dilemma

With both Kevin and Eugene busy this week, Carlos went solo to share a few changes to the podcast, including the Twitch livestream moving to Tuesday, how you can support the podcast, and podcast episo...

14 Apr 20219min

Azure Arc-enabled data services provide powerful capabilities to deploy and manage local, on-premises, and hybrid cloud data resources using the same centralized management and tooling you get from th...

24 Mar 20211h 4min

Virtual conferences are just not the same as the conferences we are used to, but we're still determined to provide a good learning and networking environment for our friends. We very much miss having...

22 Mar 202139min

As we prepare for SQL Trail on March 18th, we peek back at Microsoft Ignite and review the announcements made there—filtering out the pieces our compañeros will enjoy hearing about. Did we miss someth...

10 Mar 202145min

How do you document your SQL Server environments? I can remember walking through Brent Ozar's takeover script back in the day and how cumbersome it was to put all that information together. We have a ...

24 Feb 202147min

In this episode of the SQL Data Partners Podcast, Eugene and I go back to our DBA beginnings and talk about database file growth, how to manage files and how to tell when a file has grown. The show no...

17 Feb 202130min

The story begins with a process that has been running forever and suddenly decides to cause grief by filling up tempdb. We talk about patching, and we talk about mental health. We talk a little about ...

10 Feb 202134min

When working on a customer on an import process, she made the comment—if we were doing true EDI, we'd [Do X]. The comment got me thinking—Aren't we working on an EDI process? As someone who frequentl...

3 Feb 202132min