This week, Google AI team released the Colab CLI. The tool connects your local terminal to remote Colab runtimes. It lets developers and AI agents run code on cloud GPUs and TPUs. You stay in your ...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one ...

A few months ago, I walked into the office of one of our customers, a publicly traded vertical software company with tens of thousands of small business customers. I expected to meet a traditional ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

SINGAPORE – In 2024, Singapore’s digital economy grew by $12 billion, contributing $128.1 billion or 18.6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and generated 214,000 tech jobs. Its contribution to ...

Recovering a lost SQL Server database password can be a daunting task, especially when you're facing tight deadlines. Losing access to your critical SQL Server database can disrupt operations, lead to ...

In the realm of SQL Server administration, MSDB plays a pivotal role in facilitating various administrative tasks, job scheduling, maintenance plans, and more within SQL Server infrastructure. In this ...

Microsoft on Tuesday warned that it recently spotted a malicious campaign targeting SQL Servers that leverages a built-in PowerShell binary to achieve persistence on compromised systems. The ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

SQL Agent Fixed an issue where trying to edit a SQL Agent job step could have resulted in the SSMS UI freezing. See more here. Note that SSMS is now allowing viewing (View button) an output_file whose ...