It’s a running joke among the more experienced (read, older) Microsoft Data Platform specialists as to whether you’re #teamprofiler or #teamexevents. I’m very much #teamexevents, but I really don’t...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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I’ve never been terribly shy about my beliefs about IT certifications. I sincerely believe they are largely a waste of time. I do recognize that one thing they do...
2019-08-26
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I have an all day seminar I give called “DevOps for the DBA”. If you’re attending, thinking of attending, or you have attended, you might want to have the...
2019-08-21
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The more you work with containers, the more you just want to work with containers. However, there are still reasons to have a virtual machine for some types of...
2019-08-15 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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I’m pleased as punch to be able to share with you the fact that I helped Tracy Boggiano write a whole new book on Query Store. It will be...
2019-08-12
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In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting an all day session on DevOps for databases. It takes place on Friday, August 30th. You can click here now...
2019-08-07
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Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
2019-08-03
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In preparation for my upcoming DevOps training days (see the bottom of this post for details) and for some articles I’m working on, I’ve been building all new automation...
2019-08-02 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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There is literally nothing I like better than working on automation. Before we had all the cool toys that we have now, I was working on automating database deployments....
2019-08-01
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I’ve said it before and I will repeat myself on this because it’s an important concept: DevOps is about culture and communication, not tools Now, that said, to implement...
2019-07-29
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Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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