Advice for 2023 PASS Data Community Summit Attendees

Edwin Sarmiento has a great First Timer Guide for the PASS Data Community Summit, which is updated for 2023. He’s been compiling this since 2016, and it’s worth reading....

Using Notebooks in Azure Data Studio

Learn how to use the notebook feature of Azure Data Studio to keep a set of queries together with some documentation.

Changing the PK - I

Does Management Care About the Database?

In the past, Steve hasn't often felt management considered databases to be important, but that is changing.

The Basics of Dynamic Data Masking - Step 1 of the Stairway to Dynamic Data Masking

Learn the basics of how Dynamic Data Masking can be used to obfuscate data in SQL Server 2016+.

Don't (Always) Be a Hero

When we need to be heroes in IT on a regular basis, that's a problem for Steve.

The Temporary Synonym

A New Word: Zielschmerz

zielschmerz – n.  the dread of pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer...

Deleting a Git Branch–#SQLNewBlogger

I had someone ask me recently about deleting branches. While I had known how to delete a local branch, I had to look up how to delete a remote...

Friday Flyway Tips–Seeing Pending Migrations

I find that quite a few people using Flyway will end up with a lot of migration scripts over time. While you can certainly re-baseline and split scripts into...