• Airport traveler using biometric scan; signs read DEPARTURES, GATE B3, BIOMETRIC SCAN, IDENTITY VERIFIED

    A DBA’s Take On Microsoft Entra ID And More

    As a DBA with on-prem and cloud experience, I feel confident in saying that I’m fairly well versed on the “DBA Domain” part of the shared responsibility model. However, if we really want to do our jobs right as data professionals, having an understanding of the entire infrastructure does wonders when it comes to making…


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    DBAOps Pt.2: Connecting A GitHub Repository To Azure DevOps

    In the last post, we covered setting up an AzDO organization and project that is going to support us in achieving the end goal of building a fully functional AzDO pipeline that will handle SQL Patching for an AG. Next up: Creating a GitHub repository and connecting it to our AzDO environment so we can…


  • Server applying automatic software patches with network monitoring and threat detection

    How I Use Python To Automatically Download And Stage SQL Server CUs And GDRs

    Patching is such an important part of ensuring your MS SQL Servers are secure, reliable, and resilient. As important as it is, it’s still a tedious process. You have to chronically check for patches (hopefully you don’t have your servers running SQL to auto download and apply patches via Windows Update), look at breaking changes…