How I use Ansible to automate routine tasks by running an Adhoc script
As a Platform Engineer, I would like to run a script on over 1000 servers and i don not want to spend the whole day running script manually. There...
2024-03-31
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Blog Posts
A New Word: 1202
1202– n. the tipping point when your brain becomes so overwhelmed with tasks you need to do, you feel too guilty to put anything off until later, prioritizing every...
2024-03-29
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Dear Women in Tech, You Can Present at EightKB, Too
Last year, I submitted and was accepted to present at the EightKB conference. At first, I thought my current presentation wasn’t advanced enough, but Tracy Boggiano convinced me otherwise....
2024-03-29 (first published: 2024-03-21)
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Speaking at dataMinds Saturday & Techorama 2024
I have the pleasure to announce I’ll be presenting at two conferences this spring. The first one is at dataMinds Saturday 2024 (back in-person!): Yes, it’s a long abstract...
2024-03-29 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Webcast: How to Secure SQL Server – End to End Security
On April 16, 2024, I will be giving another webcast; this one will be on SQL Server security. Sign up link As always, the registration is free. Here’s the...
2024-03-29
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Working with ALS – Insights from the Ability Summit
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few weeks ago. It is hosted by Microsoft, and it presents the latest technology innovations and...
2024-03-29 (first published: 2024-03-27)
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DevOps: It’s About the Team, Not Just the Tech
In November 2023 I did a session at PASS Summit and one of my sessions was voted https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/have-you-watched-some-of-the-most-popular-sessions-from-summit-2023/ That session was called DevOps is about Growing People rather than...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?
At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-18)
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Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric
You might know the feeling: you’re writing code in a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric and suddenly you have to leave your workstation for a while. Someone ran the doorbell...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format
(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Blogs
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196
By Steve Jones
This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on...
Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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