Blog Posts

I'm excited to tell you about the "SQL from A to Z" learning track. This comprehensive program will take you from SQL newbie to pro in no time. It's...

2024-10-28

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A New Word: Feresy

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

feresy – n. the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t understand, even though they might be changes for the better, because it forces you to...

2024-10-25

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Moving T-SQL Tuesday to Jekyll

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL server version that I was using in Azure. The cost was going up, and while...

2024-10-25 (first published: 2024-10-07)

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Build Recovery into the Design

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It's like disaster recovery (and business continuity) planning is the end-of-term research paper that the professor mentioned on the first day of class, but which most students don't start...

2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-10)

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What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?

by Arthur-Daniels

Arthur's Blog

This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...

2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)

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Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...

2024-10-21 (first published: 2024-09-30)

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RDS Connectivity

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I travel quite a lot for work. Most of it is in the US and Europe, but I get around to other places as well. Most of the time,...

2024-10-21 (first published: 2024-10-07)

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A New Word: Hickering

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

hickering – n. the habit of falling hard for whatever pretty new acquaintance happens to come along, spending hours wallowing in the handful of details you can gather about...

2024-10-18

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