Is Your SQL Server Using RC4 for Kerberos? Here’s How to Find Out
You probably haven’t thought about Kerberos encryption types recently. That’s fair; the protocol mostly “just works” and has for decades. But CVE-2026-20833 changed the calculus. Microsoft disclosed a Kerberos information disclosure vulnerability in January 2026…
Self-Hosting Forgejo on Windows Server Hyper-V Step-by-Step
A complete walkthrough for running Forgejo on Debian 13 inside a Windows Server Hyper-V VM, with Docker Compose, Let’s Encrypt TLS, GitHub repo mirroring, and automated backups to a Windows network share.
Schedule Jobs in Azure SQL Database with Azure Functions
You don’t get SQL Server Agent in Azure SQL Database. If you’ve been a DBA for any length of time, that sentence probably made you twitch. Agent is the workhorse that runs your index maintenance,…
Performance Studio: A Cross-Platform SQL Server Execution Plan Analyzer
You have a slow query. You pull the execution plan in SSMS. You stare at the arrows. Some are thick, some are thin. There’s a yellow triangle somewhere. You’re pretty sure the problem is “in…
Performance Monitor: Free SQL Server Monitoring That Doesn’t Phone Home
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about tools. Some of them are good. Some of them are overhyped on LinkedIn. This one is neither overhyped nor underpowered. It’s the real deal….
The Progress Bar That Goes Backwards: A Jetpack Boost Source Code Archaeology
You click “Regenerate Critical CSS.” The progress bar crawls forward: 20%, 30%, 40%. Then it drops to 20%. Climbs back to 50%. Drops to 35%. Eventually it hits 100%, and you exhale. Then it starts…