Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to access the Azure SQL DBs where I work. To make our lives easier, we are...
2024-08-05 (first published: 2024-07-25)
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Bareleveling
bareleveling – v. trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’’ll end up calling...
2024-08-02
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Friday Flyway Tips–Comparison Defaults
One of the little details that I find matter more and more in enterprises is understanding why a tool behaves a certain way. OSS/home-grown ones often have limited docs,...
2024-08-02 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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My personal experience dockerizing a Rust Application: Deploy to AWS ECR using Github Actions
I have heard about many interesting things about programming in Rust and I decided to use Rust for one of my applications. I enjoyed the programming experience in Rust...
2024-08-02 (first published: 2024-07-20)
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SQL Training: The Hidden Engine Driving Business Growth
In the digital age, data is the new gold, but it's worthless if you can't understand and use it. That's where SQL (Structured Query Language) comes in. SQL is...
2024-08-02
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Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
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Are Your Secondary Availability Group Read Only Replicas Falling Behind? Are You Seeing PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN Waits?
Are you struggling with a laggy redo and a build up in the redo queue on your readonly secondaries? Are you suffering with high PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN waits? Then this magic...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-17)
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App
Here's how we used WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS to build our local development app, Studio.
2024-07-31
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Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity
The short answer is: You’ll be eligible for a piece of the pie, plus increased traffic to your website.
2024-07-30
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Blogs
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers