Chicago Database DevOps in a Day Workshop

I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of...

Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell

Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell

 For a very important client, I currently manage over 200 SQL...

How to Create a Time Table in Power BI Using DAX

Lately, I’ve been having to create items in Power BI, that I haven’t had to do for a while, this week it was a Time table. Of course, I...

Serving layers with a data lake

Data lakes typically have three layers: raw, cleaned, and presentation (also called bronze, silver, and gold if using the medallion architecture popularized by Databricks). I talk about this is...

A New Word: mahpiohanzia

mahpiohanzia – n. the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your...

Finding Identity Columns–#SQLNewBlogger

I had to find a set of identity columns recently and through this would make a good blog post. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves...

Open Online Community Hangout During PASS Summit

Are you bummed that you can’t attend the PASS Data Community Summit conference in-person this November during the week of November 13? There’s lots of reasons to be there,...

T-SQL Tuesday #165 Job Titles – What do you need?

My dear friend Josephine Bush a.k.a HelloSQLKitty hosts this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. Josephine’s call to us is to share our understanding of the multitude of job titles available out...

Using Secrets in Docker Swarm for SQL Server

In a previous post I went through how to run SQL Server in Docker Swarm and in this post I want to continue delving into the Docker Swarm platform...

What’s in a SQL Server Managed Instance?

My current position involves a lot of work with SQL Server Managed Instances so you’ll probably be hearing a lot ... Continue reading