hellosqlkitty

Josephine Bush is a Data Platform MVP and has over 10 years of experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data sectors using SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL along with Azure and AWS. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics. She presents at SQL conferences and user groups around the world. She is the leader of the Boulder SQL user group. She blogs on sqlkitty.com and you can reach her on Twitter @hellosqlkitty.

Blog Post

Why use XACT_ABORT?

This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by...

2025-04-11

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Using SQLFluff

I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot of SQL, but for the SQL I do write, I have SQLFluff to help me...

2025-03-18

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Drop roles in Postgres

You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles are granted to it. I had to go fishing to find all the grants to...

2025-02-12 (first published: )

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Blogs

A New Word: Immerensis

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immerensis – n.  the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you...

Deploy a Dockerized Python TODO App to Azure Container Apps Using Pulumi and Azure Key Vault

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In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy a dockerized simple...

SQL Server Wait Stats

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Everything in SQL Server is waiting for something…this is by design. And most people...

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mysql query timeout upped but job still fails about same number of minutes in

By stan

hi, i changed my mysql based linked server's timeout to N'600' instead of N'0'...

Somebody realized to configure Cluster-Aware updating on VMWare nodes

By boskabouter 007

Creating an Windows Server Fail-over Clusters with two SQL server 2022 and a File...

is it cache or something else

By stan

hi a few days ago i narrowed down the cause of a new problem...

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Collations

At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?

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