WIT Women Speakers Survey
There is a survey from the WIT group for female speakers. If you are a woman and speak in front of groups, or used to, please fill it out....
2023-04-05
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Blog Posts
Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 03-27-2023 & MegaCON
Zach's 1st MegaCon 2011 Hello Dear Reader! This past week is a blur. It was a tough week at work. That sentence is an understatement, but its really all I...
2023-04-04
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Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration
Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration! We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have...
2023-04-03
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Goal Progress for March 2023
The grade for March is also D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. In fact, I find myself not motivated to work...
2023-04-03
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Is Cataloging Your Data Important?
Data continues to be the lifeline for companies across the globe. As maturity levels continue to grow across companies, one aspect that sometimes needs to be checked is cataloging...
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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KQL Series – some DevOps things: Provisioning using Powershell
If you have read any of my last few posts on provisioning Azure Data Explorer then you will probably be wondering….. Will he write about Powershell? Ok, I will....
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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New Job -> Week 3 -> Creating Alerts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 3: setup much needed alerts on DTU...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-30)
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SQL Bits 2023 Recap
I had an amazing time adventuring to Wales with other members of the data community last week! It was my first international conference, and I had heard so many...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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The AI T-SQL Tuesday–#160
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this time there is an interesting invitation. Damien Jones reached out and wanted to host, so he gets to pick the topic...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-14)
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My personal experience using kubecost in Kubernetes environment
What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes which is also referred to as k8. k8 is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of the containerized application. k8...
2023-03-29 (first published: 2023-03-19)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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