FDD 2023 – Session Materials
You can find the slides for my session at Future Data Driven summit at GitHub. It was really nice presenting (virtually). If you have any questions, let me know!
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2023-09-27
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Blog Posts
How to Secure SQL Server
Security! This is the word that comes to mind of every concerned person when it comes to storing, accessing, and sharing the data and database or database server. At times when applications are run in geographically restricted areas, there...
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-04)
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SQL Homework – September 2023 – Time for temporal tables.
Recently I needed to use temporal tables. And not just for the job history table in a managed instance. In ... Continue reading
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-05)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2
The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2
The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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Enable PowerShell Remoting
Enable PowerShell Remoting
I use PowerShell quite a lot to manage servers, especially SQL Servers. So I need to be able to run PowerShell...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-24)
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Future Data Driven 2023 is This Week
The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on Wednesday, September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. The event has a great schedule (scroll...
2023-09-25
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Opening the SQL Prompt Command Palette
A few years ago SQL Prompt added a command palette to let you search the commands available. This is similar to the same concept in Visual Studio Code, ADS,...
2023-09-25
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Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query
One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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SQL Saturday Denver 2023–VCS Primer for the Database slides
My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what version control is, and the basics of Git. Not too many questions, but if you...
2023-09-25
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Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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