Tomorrow – Webcast on SQL Server Administration
I will be giving another Microsoft SQL Server-based webcast, this time on the administration of Microsoft SQL Server. The webcast is scheduled for March 26, 2024 at 1 PM...
2024-03-25
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Rubatosis
rubatosis– n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, as...
2024-03-22
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Friday Flyway Tips – Inserting Column in the Middle of a Table
I had a customer question whether Flyway Desktop (FWD) would cause problems if developers were adding columns into the middle of tables. It’s a valid concern, and this post...
2024-03-22 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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New Pluralsight Course - Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Using kubeadm to Install a Basic Cluster
We’re kicking off a major refresh of my Certified Kubernetes Administrator series at Pluralsight!
The second course “Certified Kubernetes Administrator: Using kubeadm to Install a Basic Cluster” in the updated...
2024-03-22 (first published: 2024-03-12)
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#ThankfulThursday
Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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Goals for 2024
Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...
2024-03-20
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How to Retrieve all the Spark Session Configuration Variables in Microsoft Fabric
I was trying some stuff out in a notebook on top of a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse. I was wondering what some of the default values are of the configuration...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-13)
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DataTune Nashville 2024 Recap
DataTune 2024 was a huge success! Thank you so much to the organizers who spent countless months planning and making this an incredible conference! It was so great to...
2024-03-18 (first published: 2024-03-11)
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Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs
I focus most of my blog posts on the data platform and how companies can make better business decisions using structured data (think SQL tables), but I’m seeing more...
2024-03-18 (first published: 2024-03-11)
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A New Word: Malotype
malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...
2024-03-15
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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