When is the last time you faced an early morning but couldn’t fall asleep the night before? I don’t have to wake up for off-hours work as often or as early as I used to when starting ou…| Chad Callihan
Unlike your lawn, which benefits from a regular mowing to stay healthy and looking nice, a database isn’t meant to be regularly shrunk just to keep its size under control. The grass grows to …| Chad Callihan
Some say AI can do it all. It can write code. It can tune queries. And now it can even…panic and destroy your database? I had never heard of an AI admitting to panic before, but that’s exactly what happened when a Replit AI agent accidentally deleted production data and even tried to cover up … Continue reading What Happens When AI Panics?| Chad Callihan
Have you ever heard of stolen memory in SQL Server? I’ve never had any significant issues with stolen memory myself, but I thought it would make for a good blog post. Let’s take a look …| Chad Callihan
Following up on my last post regarding AI’s impact on blogs, I came across an interesting new option that Cloudflare is rolling out. Instead of facing the dilemma of leaving content open to AI or fully blocking its access, Cloudflare is offering a “pay-per-crawl” option. We believe your choice need not be binary — there … Continue reading Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl| Chad Callihan
Is blogging on its last legs? I haven’t been posting as much this year, so I expected to see overall blog post hits go down as the months passed. But I started noticing a trend where older po…| Chad Callihan
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invite comes from Joe Fleming who asks us to write about how we worked through a strange or unique problem. Coincidentally, I had already started writing a blog pos…| Chad Callihan
In case you missed it, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 GA released last week. It can be downloaded here, and release notes can be found here. I gave my first impressions to the SSMS 21 previ…| Chad Callihan
Do you know who is logging into your SQL Server? I was once asked about the need to track SQL Server logins. Many servers were already tracking failed logins. Where the issue came up in this case was tracking successful logins to determine login usage. Let’s take a quick look at how we can track … Continue reading SQL Server Login Auditing Options| Chad Callihan
The T-SQL Tuesday invite for May 2025 comes from Andy Levy. Andy asks us to write about managing and/or monitoring SQL Server Agent jobs. Click on the T-SQL Tuesday logo to read the full invite. Th…| Chad Callihan
