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2024-09-16
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Blog Posts
Spatial Databases & Geospatial Data: A Beginner’s Guide
Ever used Google Maps to find the fastest route home? That's geospatial data in action, turning physical locations into digital info so you can navigate efficiently. Spatial databases take...
2024-09-16 (first published: 2024-08-27)
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Why You Need a SQL DBA or Consultant
Many organizations do not have in-house DBAs. This can be due to a number of reasons. Most commonly it is smaller organizations that cannot justify a full time DBA....
2024-09-16
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A New Word: Fensiveness
fensiveness – n. a knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions. I think that some of us have some fensiveness about...
2024-09-13
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AWS RDS PostgreSQL Restore to a Point in Time
One of the single biggest reasons to go with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering like AWS RDS are the things it does for you, like making it...
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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Finding nested references
I originally planned this post just as an answer to DBA Stack Overflow question: How can I get the list of tables in all the stored procedure? After preparing...
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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How to Connect Your WordPress Site to the Fediverse
Make it easier for your audience to engage with you by connecting your site to the fediverse.
2024-09-13
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Undercover Catalogue 0.4.5 Released – Database Module Bug Fix
Full documentation on the Undercover Catalogue can be found HERE We’ve spotted a bug in the Databases module where an unprintable ASCII character was being inserted at the beginning of...
2024-09-12
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Creating a Synapse Workspace
As part of my job, I needed to research how a few things work with Synapse and Fabric. The latter includes the former, mostly. I decided to setup a...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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Microsoft Fabric AI Skill
Are you ready to have conversations with your data? Announced in public preview within Microsoft Fabric is AI Skill, a new capability in Fabric that allows you to build...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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Blogs
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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