A New Word: Vaucasy
vaucasy – n. the feat that you’re little more than a product of your circumstances, that for all the thought you put into shaping your believes and behaviors and...
2023-11-17
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Blog Posts
Help! My Docker SQL Instance Won’t Start!
One day, I shut down my computer, as I usually do nightly. This time, I shut it down on a Friday and turned it back on after a holiday...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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What is Azure SQL
I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 2
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event again today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we will dive...
2023-11-16
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Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit
The WIT panel spoke on an excellent topic today: needing, and finding, allies at work. Afterward and for the first […]
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2023-11-16
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Adding a Foreign Key in the CREATE TABLE statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had someone ask this question recently and had to double check the syntax myself, so I thought this would make a nice SQL New Blogger post. Another post...
2023-11-15 (first published: 2023-10-30)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Final
In this final and summary post on the blog series of Common Mistakes in SQL Server I have pen down about auto growth, use of null values, implicit conversion...
2023-11-15 (first published: 2023-10-30)
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Deploying Indexes with SQL Compare
I suspect many people assume this is the case, but a customer recently asked if SQL Compare handles indexes. It does, and this post shows the basics of index...
2023-11-15
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 1
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we have Shireesh Thota,...
2023-11-15
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SQL Server Recovery Models
When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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