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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Export Azure SQL DB to Storage

After a data migration, we needed to decommission the old Azure SQL DBs, but we wanted to keep a copy in case we needed anything later. Enter exporting an...

2024-07-03 (first published: )

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ERD Your Existing Databases

There are several tools out there to make your life easier by creating an ERD for your existing db. Everything works pretty well when you have a small number...

2024-06-12 (first published: )

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Blogs

Why Database AI Agents need Layers?

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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...

Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199

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This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...

T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem

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It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...

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How Do the Experts Become Experts?

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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment

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Secure Communications

As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?

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