Kusto (KQL) for Azure SQL Audit
According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His...
2024-01-03 (first published: 2023-12-26)
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Blog Posts
Career Plan for 2024
It’s a holiday today, but I’m dropping this as I spent last week working on it. I wrote about having a career plan on Friday, with a few notes...
2024-01-01
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Clearing Intellisense in SQL Prompt
I got this question from an account rep: if a customer is using SQL Prompt and a snippet, for example AT, that was also used as an alias, is...
2024-01-01 (first published: 2023-12-13)
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Spark Connect
Spark Connect References https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-connect-overview.html
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2022/07/07/introducing-spark-connect-the-power-of-apache-spark-everywhere.html
Reference Implementations Rust
GOLang
Source gRPC proto files https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/connector/connect/common/src/main/protobuf/spark/connect
Useful Videos If this doesn’t get you excited then nothing will it is, of course, suitable for work, it is...
2024-01-01
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A New Word: Koiniphobia
koinophobia – n. the fear that you’ve lived an ordinary life. The last one of the year. I’ve enjoyed reading through this dictionary, learning new (made up) words, and...
2023-12-29
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Can you take a differential backup of master?
In one of the sessions I attended during the Pass Data Community Summit the speaker asked “If master is in ... Continue reading
2023-12-29 (first published: 2023-12-19)
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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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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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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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