Speaker of the Month, December 2013
This will be my fifth speaker of the month post. Do a search to see the others.
I try to find...
2013-12-06
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gfritchey.bsky.social
Windows Azure Views
It’s kind of fun to see Azure development artifacts on display. I’ve posted about them before, a couple of times....
2013-11-19
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For the Aspiring DBA
Getting started as a data professional is an incredibly daunting task. If you’re not concerned that you’re going to mess...
2013-11-18 (first published: 2013-11-11)
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Cargo Cult Data Professionals
Ever since David Moutray introduced me to the concept of cargo cult programming, it’s been running round and round in...
2013-11-12
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More Azure Goodies
Microsoft keeps sneaking little things under the door for Windows Azure SQL Database. This time it’s a couple of new...
2013-11-12 (first published: 2013-11-05)
1,781 reads
Speaker of the Month, November 2013
Yeah, I’m a couple of days late. Tough. My blog. My rules.
Speaking of rules. Speaker of the Month is chosen...
2013-11-04
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Query Tuning in Dallas
Let’s have some fun.
This Friday, November 1, 2013, I’m putting on an all day seminar on query tuning. It’s set...
2013-10-29
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Monitoring Structure Changes
Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...
2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)
2,288 reads
SQL in the City, US Tour 2013, Recap
Red Gate visited three cities this year with our SQL in the City event; Pasadena, Atlanta and Charlotte. I just...
2013-10-22
837 reads
Do Be a Gatekeeper
I read this fascinating blog post called “Don’t Be a Gatekeeper” by Julie Zhuo. Please read that first.
It really resonated...
2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-09)
2,721 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
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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