Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data
An in-depth look at how you convert an existing table with data to a system versioned table that will maintain a history of changes.
2023-05-11
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Blog Posts
Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Hello Dear Reader! My lastest blog on our Azure FastTrack blog for Microsoft is live, Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Here's a little from the blog:To paraphrase Annie,...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-02)
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New Job -> Week 7 and Beyond
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. As a DBA, the first six weeks on the job can be...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-01)
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Code That Writes Code
“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-04-28)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-01-2023 A new house, a reunion, & 15 Years of SQL Saturday Jacksonville
Hello Dear Reader, what a week! On Thursday my wife and I closed on a new house. We are so incredibly excited! We owned a house for a very...
2023-05-08
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What Is Azure Data Factory?
What Is Azure Data Factory? Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-based PaaS data integration solution that provides a fully managed, serverless environment for ingesting, preparing, and transforming your...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-05-01)
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A New Word: Chysalism
Chysalism – n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm? While I love the sun, I did enjoy thunderstorms when I lived in Virginia. Something neat about...
2023-05-05
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Change the Default Git Branch for a dbt Cloud Project
In dbt, you can link your project to a github account, which is obviously the right thing to do. By default, the project uses the main branch. But what...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Exporting SQL Data Compare Results to Excel
I had someone ask recently about getting SQL Data Compare results in Excel. It’s easy to do and this post looks at the process. Exporting a Comparison I won’t...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Traveling to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023
I’m heading to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023 today, speaking tomorrow. After not making any of their events, I went in 2022 and am back for their 15th event this...
2023-05-05
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
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Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers