A New Word: ioia
ioia – n.the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter – checking the signal strength of their compatibility, a measure of their trustworthiness. I...
2024-05-10
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Blog Posts
Building a Docker image with Docker Build Cloud
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container image from a remote (Github) repository. Here we’re going to expand on that by actually...
2024-05-10 (first published: 2024-04-25)
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DBA and Developer: Allies or Adversaries?
In the expansive landscape of software development, the relationship between Database Administrators (DBAs) and Developers has been a subject of intrigue, debate, and occasional drama. Do they collaborate harmoniously...
2024-05-10 (first published: 2024-04-29)
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Dealing with Change – Two Resources
As I look at the state of information technology today, I see one constant: rapid change. We all see it. While this is the type of post I would...
2024-05-08 (first published: 2024-04-22)
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Degrees and Trade Schools
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the 80’s trade classes in high school and post high school were frowned upon, or looked...
2024-05-08
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How Redgate Flyway Can Boost Your DevOps Journey
A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is a culture and a set of practices that aim to deliver software faster and more...
2024-05-08 (first published: 2024-04-25)
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Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event, a volleyball tournament, and a wedding. Each time was a lot of fun and I...
2024-05-08
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Techorama 2024 – Slides
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on github.
The post Techorama 2024 – Slides first appeared on Under the kover of business intelligence.
2024-05-08
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Attacking the Weakest Link
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first thing I start poking around at is where I think security is weakest. For instance,...
2024-05-06
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Cloud Databases Made Simple: Creating Your First AWS RDS Instance
I recently started full time learning of Amazon Web Services (AWS). I found that AWS's Relational Database Service
(RDS) is really user-friendly. RDS simplifies many of the
complicated aspects of...
2024-05-06 (first published: 2024-04-20)
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers