Yesterday, I had the opportunity, and the privilege, to attend an all-day workshop put on by Bob Ward teaching all about SQL Server 2022 (you can take this too, Bob is presenting it at SQLSaturday Austin and SQL Bits, and there will be more). It was a great day. Bob is an excellent teacher. Even […]
2023-02-11
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Over the last year, at work and after work, I’ve been teaching myself a lot of brand new technologies. As such, I’m reliant on others to have put together...
2023-01-30
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I am an amateur radio operator. In the US this is commonly referred to as a ham, or a ham radio operator. My call sign is KC1KCE, as issued by the US government through the FCC. And yeah, I can hear you now, a ham is the geek equivalent of a cross-fitter. How do you […]
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-14)
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Happy New Year! You're going to be seeing a lot of summaries for 2022 and predictions for 2023 around this time of year. I'm not writing one of those. You'll also see people calling for new years resolutions and the like. I'm not going for that either. Nope, let's keep it simple. It is a […]
2022-12-31
60 reads
If you're an experienced, knowledgeable, seasoned (I won't say old), SQL Server data professional, and you choose to use Trace Events (Profiler), more power to you. That's it. That's all I have to say. Do what you think best. I'm never, ever (again), going to second guess you. Further, my apologies for ever having done […]
2022-12-10
195 reads
Very excited to take part in my third #PGSQLPhriday blogging event, even more so because it’s a topic that’s quite near and dear to my heart, community. To say...
2022-12-02
23 reads
Just a quick post to let you know that there’s a great sale right now at Springer on my brand new, completely rewritten, query performance tuning book. Get your...
2022-11-21
51 reads
If you’re interested in getting a digital copy, my brand spanking new book is now available here. It’s in the intro, but let me tell you a little bit...
2022-11-11
246 reads
It’s time again for the another PGSQL Phriday, this time, the question has been asked: How do you do PostgreSQL backups? Honesty up front. I’m very much just beginning...
2022-11-04
13 reads
I spend a lot of time in the forums on various web sites, trying to assist people with getting help online. It’s shocking how hard they make it. Let’s...
2022-11-02 (first published: 2022-10-24)
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By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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