Category Archives: Blog

A New Word: Dolorblindness

Posted on February 6, 2026 by way0utwest

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through your own experiences for some slapdash comparison, wishing you could tell … Continue reading →

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Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

Posted on February 4, 2026 by way0utwest

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates log files each time it runs, but analyzing those isn’t easy. … Continue reading →

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PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

Posted on February 3, 2026 by way0utwest

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started to build this in PowerPoint. I decided to switch to Claude and ended up with an interactive one-page web app. This post looks at how I … Continue reading →

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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview

Posted on February 2, 2026 by way0utwest

One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work is in preview (as of 12 Jan 2026) and this post … Continue reading →

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