Deploying VMWare into Azure
Last Updated on January 18, 2024 by John Morehouse Did you know that you can deploy native VMWare virtual machines into Azure? Yeah, I didn’t either until earlier this...
2023-12-29
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Blog Posts
Friday Flyway Tips–Linking Commits to an Azure DevOps Work Item
Recently I was doing a demo and a customer asked how I had linked my commit in Azure DevOps to the work item that existed. It’s easy, and tldr;...
2023-12-29
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My Stats from 2023
I’m a data guy, so I decided to drop some numbers in a post. I did this last year, so this one includes a few comparison points. Music From...
2023-12-29
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Using DATETRUNC–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone using DATETRUNC recently in some code and realized I hadn’t really looked at this function before. It’s one that was added in SQL Server 2022, though...
2023-12-29 (first published: 2023-12-18)
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 4 - Using Github)
In Part 1, we explain the basics and prerrequisites to work with Terraform.In Part 2, we created our first Azure resource.In Part 3, we deployed our fist solution (Azure...
2023-12-28 (first published: 2023-12-27)
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BUILTINAdministrators in SQL Server on Linux
When I first started working with SQL on Linux one of the first things I did was to remove the default the [BUILTINAdministrators] login. This is pretty much standard...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Deploying Migrations with a Target
Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and helping a customer work on deploying part of their work. They weren’t sure how easy this could be, but this...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server
Use Dynamic Data Masking to protect your data
The post Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server appeared first on Tim Radney.
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-03)
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What I Love About My Job
In June this year I took redundancy from the company I’d worked at for the previous 11 years. It was of course an uncertain time while I figured out...
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-07)
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A New Word: the whipgraft delusion
whipgraft delusion – n. the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a strange, as...
2023-12-22
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Blogs
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Getting Your Data GenAI-Ready: The Next Stage of Data Maturity
By James Serra
I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?