A New Word: Insoucism
insoucism – n. the inability to decide how much sympathy your situation really deserves, knowing that so many people have it far worse and others far better, that some...
2024-05-24
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Blog Posts
Friday Basics: Authentication vs. Authorization
Another security fundamentals topic is authentication versus authorization. For those who have a clear understanding of the difference between the two, like with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) vs. Recovery...
2024-05-24 (first published: 2024-05-03)
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Friday Flyway Tips–State-based Deployments
Recently the Flyway Desktop (FWD) team release support for state-based deployments. These are similar to SQL Compare deployments, but with your code source control, which is where you want...
2024-05-24
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Reading JSON Data with Python
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday. As a start, I needed to read some of the archive data I have in Python. This post...
2024-05-24 (first published: 2024-05-12)
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AI World
this month is the big month and a month to remember their are so many announcements has been done in this month – May -2024 . As this is...
2024-05-23
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Bicep Your Elastic Jobs
I posted on Terraform and Azure SQL last year but wanted to see what Bicep could do this year. I’m going to test Bicep out with Elastic Jobs. TL;DR—My...
2024-05-22 (first published: 2024-05-02)
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Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft Learn Docs article at the recommendation of my colleague Randolph West, who guessed (accurately) I...
2024-05-22 (first published: 2024-05-03)
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Using Flyway with Feature Flags
There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to...
2024-05-22
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6 Can’t-Miss Basic SQL Courses to Learn in 2024: Your Fast Track to Data Mastery
Ready to dive into the world of SQL? Whether you're dreaming of a lucrative data career or just want a new skill under your belt, learning SQL is a...
2024-05-21
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3rd Party Applications Have Issues
As a SQL DBA, what do you do when a vendor application has performance problems that are code related? Server settings don’t generally seem to be an issue. Queries...
2024-05-20 (first published: 2024-05-02)
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Blogs
Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones
By John
One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that...
Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it...
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Forums
Think LSNs Are Unique? Think Again - Preventing Data Loss in CDC ETL
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The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
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Question of the Day
A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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