A New Word: the Wends

the wends– n. the frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, which prompts you to try plugging in various through combinations to trigger anything...

The London Redgate Summit Comes on Apr 17

I’m heading to the UK in a few weeks for the London Redgate Summit. This starts a wild period of travel for me, but I’m excited. This is the...

What is data classification, and why is it important?

The benefits of data classification and the features of a tool like Microsoft Purview, a unified data governance service. Data classification organizes data into categories based on its type,...

Bringing the Redgate Seminar to Brisbane

We’ve been on a Redgate tour this year, running lots of events to interest, educate, and inspire customers. We know that there are challenges in building and operating database...

How I use Terraform to deploy my AWS amplify react js project

As a Software Engineer, I would like to deploy my AWS Amplify react js project using Terraform so that I can automate my workflow and eliminate any manual intervention...

Manually Updating Redgate Monitor/SQL Monitor Patch Info

This post looks at updating the patch information for SQL Monitor/Redgate Monitor without using the automated process. I have other posts on SQL Monitor as well. I heard from...

Power Query ODBC bug affecting date calculations

I was working on an imported Power BI semantic model, adding some fiscal year calculations to my date table. The date table was sourced from a view in Databricks...

T-SQL Tuesday #173–The AI Job Helper

This month I had a new host, Pinal Dave. I was surprised to see he hadn’t hosted, but I didn’t see him in the list. His invite is interesting,...

Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh” has dropped on Amazon to its...

Finding the Latest Backup Timestamps for Your Databases

Finding the Latest Backup Timestamps for Your Databases

I wanted to find out the most recent date and time each database was last backed up, focusing specifically on full, differential,...