Speaking at SQL Saturday Boston 2023
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Boston on October 14th, 2023. This year’s session is Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
As DBAs, we’re...
2023-10-02
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Boston on October 14th, 2023. This year’s session is Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
As DBAs, we’re...
2023-10-02
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ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...
2023-09-29
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Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-09-05)
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I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any doubt that’s for October 2023, I’m posting this invitation a little early as I got...
2023-09-29
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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!
The...
2023-09-27
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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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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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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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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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By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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