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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Terraform Commands

I realized I never created a post to show how to deploy Terraform from VS Code. I haven’t done that in a while because I don’t do it at...

2025-08-13

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Query multiple Azure SQL Databases

I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things discovered in our vulnerability assessments. Changing things via PowerShell I wanted to be cautious with...

2025-06-04 (first published: )

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Azure Vulnerability Assessments

Regarding managing databases in the cloud, security should never be an afterthought. That’s where Azure Vulnerability Assessments, officially named Microsoft Defender, come in—they help you spot weak spots in...

2025-05-26 (first published: )

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Using Cron in Postgres Flex

pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database as an extension. It allows you to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly from your database, similar...

2025-05-19 (first published: )

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Why use XACT_ABORT?

This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by...

2025-04-28 (first published: )

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Using SQLFluff

I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot of SQL, but for the SQL I do write, I have SQLFluff to help me...

2025-03-18

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Drop roles in Postgres

You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles are granted to it. I had to go fishing to find all the grants to...

2025-02-12 (first published: )

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Blogs

How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift

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Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...

The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech

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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...

Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server

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I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...

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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade

By millardus

Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...

How Long is a Long I/O?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...

T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server

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Question of the Day

How Long is a Long I/O?

In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?

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