Speakers Are Normal People
Today Steve encourages everyone to feel welcome in the data professional community.
2023-01-27
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Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
- Twitter: @way0utwest
- Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest
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Daily Coping 26 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on what’s good, even if today feels tough. Yesterday was a tough day. I got busy, distracted, had some bad news come up,...
2023-01-26
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2023-01-25
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Daily Coping 25 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to be gentle with yourself when you make mistakes. I forgot about a commitment. I had agreed to do a webinar and prepare some content....
2023-01-25
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Losing Track of Data
Facebook isn't sure where all your personal data is stored. Are you sure your organization is any different?
2023-01-25
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Daily Coping 24 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice five beautiful things. I decided to do this on a snowy, stormy day in Denver. I was up early with...
2023-01-24
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Daily Coping 23 Jan 2022
Today’s coping tip is to eat healthy today with some nourishing food. A few days before think I was getting ready for my daughter to leave for university. I...
2023-01-23
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The Challenge of Deleting Data
Removing data from your systems isn't as easy as you might think. It is especially important to be aware when you are doing this for compliance.
2023-01-23
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Creating a PostgreSQL Docker Container with a Volume on Windows
This post looks at how to set up a PostgreSQL container on Windows using Docker for Windows. I’ve seen a few posts, but I had to cobble together some...
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-09)
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Daily Coping 20 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a different route today and see what you notice. I’ve had this tip come up a few times and each time I’ve enjoyed...
2023-01-20
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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