A New Word: Hickering
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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Blog Posts
Denver Dev Day Oct 2024 Slides
Here are the slides from my talk today: CI in Azure DevOps If you have questions, please feel free to contact me (top menu above).
2024-10-18
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Enabling an Index: #SQLNewBlogger
I don’t do a lot of work with disabled index, but I learned how to re-enable one today, which was a surprise to me. This short post covers how...
2024-10-18 (first published: 2024-10-02)
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Minimize Downtime with SQL MI Disaster Recovery
I speak to many people who use cloud technologies, especially database tech and how little consideration they give to their MISSION CRITICAL Databases that run in the cloud and...
2024-10-18
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Snowflake + Azure blob
Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a very common integration I see nowadays, Azure Blob Storage linked to Snowflake via a storage...
2024-10-18 (first published: 2024-10-04)
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Key mappings in Visual Studio Code
At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation. Running code during a presentation should be as smooth as possible…so in VS Code I...
2024-10-16 (first published: 2024-09-27)
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Master SQL with This Free Course (141 Interactive Exercises Included)
SQL is essential for modern businesses and applications that rely on data. It's a robust language that lets you work with databases, pull out the information you need, and...
2024-10-16
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The Only Valid Test of a Backup is a Restore
Please, let me reiterate: The only valid test of a backup is a restore. THE ONLY VALID TEST OF A BACKUP IS A RESTORE. I’m happy that you have...
2024-10-16 (first published: 2024-09-30)
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Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory
I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse with a metadata-driven, pattern-based approach. One of the benefits I mentioned is that it’s easy...
2024-10-14
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Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory
I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse with a metadata-driven, pattern-based approach. One of the benefits I mentioned is that it’s easy...
2024-10-14
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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