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.

Blog Post

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...

2025-04-21 (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

Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger

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I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...

SQL Server Index Primer

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Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...

Secure Azure SQL Server Backups Using Managed Identities

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I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server...

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Forums

Update particular record in a table

By dhanekulakalyan

I need to update greatherthan8 (category) record to Missing (status) if the same member...

Internationalisation

By julian.fletcher

Quick one I hope in case I'm heading off in entirely the wrong direction!...

Size of DB on physical disk doesn't match Disk Usage by Table report

By water490

Hi everyone I am looking at the size of my db on disk (ie...

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Question of the Day

Getting the TEXTSIZE

How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:

SET TEXTSIZE 8096
But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this?

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