Daily Coping 16 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on being kind rather than being right. This is one of the things that grows my wisdom over time. I don’t need to...
2023-02-16
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Blog Posts
Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to look for good in others, particularly when you feel frustrated. We all deal with conflicts with others throughout out lives. How we handle those...
2023-02-15
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Why Managed Identities are Awesome
For the first workdays of this new year, I had the pleasurable task of resetting a bunch of passwords. The passwords belong to Azure AD users, service principals, SQL...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Build Once – Add Metadata
When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...
2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Daily Coping 14 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to thank someone and tell them how they made a difference for you. I’ve had a lot of success in my life, as well as...
2023-02-14
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Speaking at Techorama 2023
I’m excited to announce I’ve been selected again as a speaker for Techorama 2023. Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-focused events in the European mainland, and it’s always...
2023-02-14
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Daily Coping 13 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to show an active interest by asking questions when talking to others. I listen more and more these days. I’m trying to input less and...
2023-02-13
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Queries Impacting TempDB
The question came up that someone wanted to monitor the queries impacting tempdb using Extended Events. Initially, I was pretty sure that there was no real way to do...
2023-02-13
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 02-06-2023
Hello Dear Reader! We had a great last week on Tales from the Field. This weekend was also a really nice one. On Saturday a group of friends gathered...
2023-02-13
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM
I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment...
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Question of the Day
Copying Production Schema
If I use DBCC CLONEDATABASE, can I remove some of the information from the copy?
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