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.

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Data (and Humans) At Rest

We talk a lot about data in the data world – imagine that! Sometimes, we talk about data at rest, but when do we all rest? Do we even...

2024-08-12 (first published: )

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Terraform Elastic Jobs

I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...

2024-07-31 (first published: )

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Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025

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SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to...

Updating SSMS is Easy (w/ v21)

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I’ve been using the SSMS preview for v21. This is the next evolution of...

Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory

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In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I...

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The Long Running Backup

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Interview Tips

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importing from PowerQuery... but with multiple powerqueries

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I finally got the PowerQuery source to "show" in SSIS (so I can see...

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Question of the Day

The Long Running Backup

I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?

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