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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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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Azure Workbooks

I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide...

2023-12-13 (first published: )

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Temporal Table Data Fixes

I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...

2023-09-29 (first published: )

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Blogs

Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container

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In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...

Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code

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Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...

Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server

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Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....

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Forums

PowerBI Question - Data Sources

By Brandie Tarvin

I don't see a PowerBI forum, so I'm posting here. I have a need...

SQL Server Certificates

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Connect an Azure Function to Azure SQL database Using a Managed Identity

By Kunal Rathi

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Certificates

Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?

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