Blog Posts

Daily Coping 10 Jul 2020

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

2020-07-10

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Measuring Well Being

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I need to write something more on this, but it struck me that this is something I wish previous employers had done, anonymously, and reported results back to others....

2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-29)

292 reads

Thoughts As Pride Month 2020 Comes to a Close

• by -Chad-Crawford

• LittleKendra

I’ve begun working on developing a couple of small habits this month, thanks largely to Andy Mallon‘s helpful advocacy. Becoming more consistent in sharing my pronouns My pronouns are...

2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-30)

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Daily Coping 9 Jul 2020

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

2020-07-09

5 reads

New Free Course: The Dirty Secrets of NOLOCK

• by -Chad-Crawford

• LittleKendra

I’m excited to begin moving over courses from SQL Workbooks and making the material available here. The first course up for grabs is The Dirty Secrets of NOLOCK. A...

2020-07-09 (first published: 2020-06-29)

942 reads

Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...

2020-07-09

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SQL Server Backups on AWS RDS

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service offerings is the fact that it makes it so I don’t have to do silly things...

2020-07-09 (first published: 2020-06-29)

213 reads

The Manager’s Guide to Git Training for DBAs (Video / Podcast)

• by administrator

• LittleKendra

Learning Git can be daunting for DBAs. In this 20 minute episode, I discuss why learning a VCS is necessary for DBAs, then give three tips on scoping your...

2020-07-09

19 reads

Backup On-Premise SQL Server to Azure BLOB Storage

• by davidfowler-42596

• SQL Undercover

SQL Server has given us the option to backup our databases directly to Azure BLOB storage for a while now but it’s not something that I’ve had all that...

2020-07-08 (first published: 2020-06-22)

229 reads

Daily Coping 8 Jul 2020

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

2020-07-08

7 reads