Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and helping a customer work on deploying part of their work. They weren’t sure how easy this could be, but this...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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Use Dynamic Data Masking to protect your data
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2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-03)
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In June this year I took redundancy from the company I’d worked at for the previous 11 years. It was of course an uncertain time while I figured out...
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-07)
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whipgraft delusion – n. the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a strange, as...
2023-12-22
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I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-11)
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Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and practicing deploying certain migrations and not others. I don’t recommend this, but a customer was doing this and I wanted...
2023-12-22
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Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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I know I can use extended events (xevents) in Azure SQL DB when in SSMS, but I wanted to learn how to use them in Azure Data Studio (ADS)....
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-11-30)
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It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to talk about which version of SQL Server you should be on, now that we’re at...
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-12-05)
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A couple of months ago where I work, a major product started undergoing a rebrand. I don’t pretend to understand marketing folks, but a change this big needed to...
2023-12-19
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By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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