Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data
An in-depth look at how you convert an existing table with data to a system versioned table that will maintain a history of changes.
2023-05-11
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Blog Posts
Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Hello Dear Reader! My lastest blog on our Azure FastTrack blog for Microsoft is live, Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Here's a little from the blog:To paraphrase Annie,...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-02)
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New Job -> Week 7 and Beyond
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. As a DBA, the first six weeks on the job can be...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-01)
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Code That Writes Code
“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-04-28)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-01-2023 A new house, a reunion, & 15 Years of SQL Saturday Jacksonville
Hello Dear Reader, what a week! On Thursday my wife and I closed on a new house. We are so incredibly excited! We owned a house for a very...
2023-05-08
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What Is Azure Data Factory?
What Is Azure Data Factory? Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-based PaaS data integration solution that provides a fully managed, serverless environment for ingesting, preparing, and transforming your...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-05-01)
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A New Word: Chysalism
Chysalism – n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm? While I love the sun, I did enjoy thunderstorms when I lived in Virginia. Something neat about...
2023-05-05
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Change the Default Git Branch for a dbt Cloud Project
In dbt, you can link your project to a github account, which is obviously the right thing to do. By default, the project uses the main branch. But what...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Exporting SQL Data Compare Results to Excel
I had someone ask recently about getting SQL Data Compare results in Excel. It’s easy to do and this post looks at the process. Exporting a Comparison I won’t...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Traveling to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023
I’m heading to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023 today, speaking tomorrow. After not making any of their events, I went in 2022 and am back for their 15th event this...
2023-05-05
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Blogs
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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