hellosqlkitty

Josephine Bush 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.

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Azure SQL DB Failover Groups

In today’s fast-paced digital world, keeping your data safe and accessible is more important than ever. That’s where Azure SQL Database steps in, offering a suite of tools to...

2024-04-22 (first published: )

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Elastic Jobs for Azure SQL DB

I know if you are a SQL Server DBA using Azure SQL DB, you’ve been sorely missing the agent. Enter Elastic Jobs to help you schedule jobs more easily...

2024-04-18 (first published: )

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Using SQL Elastic Pools

We use SQL elastic pools at work. I needed to learn more about their nuances and help you with some of their challenges. Setting Up Elastic Pools Here‘s some...

2024-04-05 (first published: )

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Kusto (KQL) for Azure SQL Audit

According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His...

2024-01-03 (first published: )

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Blogs

Friday Basics: the CIA Triad

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In information security (INFOSEC), there several foundational concepts and principles. One of the ones...

A New Word: the standard blues

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the standard blues– n. the dispiriting awareness that the twists and turns of your...

How Redgate Flyway Can Boost Your DevOps Journey

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A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...

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client_app_name is empty in Extended Events output but present in sp_who2

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I'm tracing activity on one database and would like to include the client_app_name in...

How to compare data in customer table with other customers to find related cust

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select Custno, Addr1, City, Res_Phone, Bus_Phone, Fax_Phone, Marine_Phone, Pager_Phone, Other_Phone, email1, email2 from customer...

process records in loop

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I'm only processing 50,000 records not everything from the Table where there are 250,00...

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Question of the Day

The Marked Transaction

I want to mark a transaction in the log as a recovery point. How do I do this in my code if I use the transaction, myTran?

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