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Yesterday republicans voted to raise the deficit by $4 trillion dollars and today Department of Government Efficiency is fretting about 107 unused photoshop licenses. Y'all got played.

MAGA are terrorists, if you see them in your country report them

SNL debuts a new Elon Musk: Mike Myers

Tesla stocks going down faster than Musk’s mental cognitive ability

I left a server online with VNC wide open to see how it would be interacted with. This is one of the more interesting interactions:

New blog post: In which I cover a fairly common VM CPU configuration mistake that may end up hurting your SQL Server’s performance and wasting licensing money. vladdba.com/2025/06/08/vm-… #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql

New blog post: In which I explore the impact of SQL Server 2025’s PBKDF2 hashing algorithm on password cracking and compare it with SQL Server 2022. #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #security #pbkdf2 vladdba.com/2025/06/23/loo…

New blog post: In which I demo two PoCs for SQL injection vulnerabilities fixed in SQL Server 2022 CU20 GDR KB5063814. vladdba.com/2025/08/29/poc… #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #security #sqli #sqlinjection

Live look at JPM staff entering the mothership to create shareholder value

New blog post: In which I demo a pure T-SQL implementation of SQL Server 2025's new PBKDF2 hashing algorithm #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #security vladdba.com/2025/11/02/rep…

New blog post: In which I share my SQL Server Management Studio 22 configuration. #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #ssms vladdba.com/2025/11/16/my-…

New blog post: In which I show you how to easily migrate saved connection details from SQL Server Management Studio 21 to SSMS 22. #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #ssms #PowerShell vladdba.com/2025/11/17/imp…

New blog post: In which I demo a PowerShell script I wrote to extract and decrypt SSMS 21 and 22 saved connection information. #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql #ssms #PowerShell vladdba.com/2025/11/22/pow…