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

Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up

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I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...

Who Are You Doing It For?

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But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...

Presenting Twice in May 2026

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I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...

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Radius Latitude Longitude

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I have a table with latitude longitude in the format.  45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...

degree of parallelism

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Question of the Day

A Fun Computer Quote

Which movie featured this quote?

"All programs have a desire to be useful."
Happy April Fools!

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