MVP No more, But It’s OK
Embracing Limitations: Finding Strength and Purpose in Hard Times For four years, I was honored to receive the MVP award for my work in the
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2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-12)
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Tracy Boggiano
Presenting at PASS Summit 2023 – Atomic Habits
I’m excited to be presenting at PASS Summit 2023, not only because it is PASS Summit but because of the topic. I do a lot
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2023-08-11 (first published: 2023-07-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday #163 – Career Advice I received
It’s time for our monthly blog party and thanks to Gethyn Ellis ( t | b) for hosting this month. Gethyn asks us for the best Career
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2023-07-07 (first published: 2023-06-21)
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Twenty Years as a Guardian ad Litem
Twenty years ago, I stood in a courtroom and took an oath for a volunteer job I had no idea I would fall so much
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2023-06-30 (first published: 2023-06-26)
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Using Azure Automation and Runbooks to Run Azure SQL Database Maintenance Tasks
I’ve been using Azure SQL Database for quite some while and have set up it in many various ways to run Ola’s Index Optimize and
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2023-06-26 (first published: 2023-06-06)
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WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take
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2023-03-29 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB
EightKB is a wonderfully ran conference by my friends Mark Wilkinson (T | B), Anthony Nocentino (T | B), Andrew Pruski (T | B), and
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2023-03-22 (first published: 2023-03-14)
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Script to Install the Tools I Use on My Jumpbox
I wrote a blog post a few months ago about the tools I use on my jumpbox you can read here. Since then, I have
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2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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Impact of Eliminating Implicit Conversions in JDBC Driver
Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop
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2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2022 Edition
Trigger warning: suicidal ideation, depression, bipolar, mania If you would prefer to stick to all the positives skip to the numbered list at the bottom.
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2022-12-31
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Blogs
A New Word: Vicarous
By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Forums
View works for me ...but doesn't return results for a user in SSMS but no errors
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
Dark mode, other color schemes
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Question of the Day
Internal Checkpoints
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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