Deborah Melkin

The AI hype train shows no signs of slowing down and it seems like every week there is a new model, a new acronym, or some new AI wizardry that commands our attention. We feel like we have to learn every new thing we hear about and it's difficult to sort fact from fiction when we become aware of...

Need to ship row level data changes for processing downstream? Change Data Capture (CDC) used to be the go-to option. But now there's a new choice with SQL Server 2025: Change Event Streaming (CES). Come and learn about their architectures as well as the pros and cons of each. Leave knowing...

We all have that one monster stored procedure: incredibly complex and integral to the application. But performance has been getting worse, and now it can no longer be ignored.

Who is responsible for indexing your application: operations or development? Depending on the role, organizational structure, and access to the environment in need of indexing, the answer to that question may vary.

Concise, Quick & Informative short talks: 5 Dashboard Design Rules in 10 minutes - Lakshmi Ponnurasan The Benefits of Mentoring - Deborah Melkin Blogging: Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Jason Romans Unlock the Power of Analogies to Simplify Complex Topics - Andy Yun Home Lab - Private Cloud on a budget - Jared Rhodes

We all have that one monster stored procedure: incredibly complex and integral to the application. But performance has been getting worse, and now it can no longer be ignored.

If you had to describe the database deployment process, you may say: We make changes in dev, magic happens, and then they appear in production. The technical part of that magic is what we’ll discuss.

If you had to describe the database deployment process, you may say: We make changes in dev, magic happens, and then they appear in production. The technical part of that magic is what we’ll discuss.

Have you been hearing about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio but haven't worked with them yet? Or have you played around with notebooks but not been able to figure out how to make them work for you? Let's jump into SQL Notebooks together as we figure out how we can use them in our day-to-day work!

Have you been hearing about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio but haven't worked with them yet? Or have you played around with notebooks but not been able to figure out how to make them work for you?

Most database professionals know there are two different database design patterns - normal forms for OLTP databases and star schemas for data warehouses. We tend to discuss these separately.