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Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days

Today is Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a record-breaking 570 flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and one publicly disclosed...

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Visited the Teeling Distillery in Dublin a couple of months ago, filled my own bottle. I feel like my next act in life should be as either a brewer or distiller.

I told a junior developer to use a query hint in a single query in their nonproduction environment to test if it allowed the query to perform better... They put the query hint into every query on their prod website. Chaos ensues. With great power comes great responsibility?

a crowd of people with their hands on their heads

Alt: a crowd of people with their hands on their heads in a facepalm gesture

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Shopping for our nephews today. We ended up buying a music CD for one, and a magazine for the other. Are we officially the old uncle and aunt who don't know what kids today want, or are we the cool uncle and aunt who want our nephews to know how their parents grew up?

I called something "a machine that goes PING!" in a meeting today... Then I had to explain the reference to a coworker fresh out of college. Is Monty Python no longer a nerd standard?

@zacstraub.com Either our prayers or our curses have been heard. Not sure which one though. 🤣

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

a man in a black coat is laying on the ground in the snow

Alt: Ryan Gosling’s character in a black trench coat, lying on his back on the snowy steps in the closing scene of the movie.

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I did a bad thing. I looked at the source code and searched for "TrustServerCertificate". This is with valid certificates issued by a widely trusted CA on each SQL instance I manage. Not sure if I should scream, claw out my eyes, or break out one of the Three Wisemen.

Azure Database Administrator certification renewed for another year... With only one good eye, while on head-down doctor's orders. Did my retina detach just to give me the time to take the renewal assessment?

Quarterly datacenter maintenance tonight... Read-only Friday morphs into "burn it down Friday night" only once every three months!

Boxing Day Cricket in Melbourne! Temps will be over 100 F... Hard to believe just a few days ago I was shoveling six inches of snow in Wisconsin.

Some look at a disaster recovery test as "oh great, I have to work on a Saturday"... I prefer to look at it as "Great! I get to break our most important internal website and people will thank me for it!"

It's time for the databases to unwind after a long week of work.

Happy Read-only Friday to everyone who wants to enjoy the weekend! 😄