xp_cmdshell is an extended SQL stored proc that allows users to run Windows command prompt commands from within SQL. Sound scary? It might, but is xp_cmdshell really a security...
2023-04-26 (first published: 2023-04-12)
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A while back I posted a blog on how to recover data with crash consistent snapshots. Snapshots are pretty handy in certain situations so I thought I’d show you...
2023-04-26 (first published: 2023-04-11)
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At Redgate, we’ve spent a lot of time adding PostgreSQL functionality to our DevOps tools. We’ve also hired an advocate, Ryan Booz, to help us spread the word and...
2023-04-26
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I question I have been getting from customers lately is about a data marketplace. What is it, and what products can I use to build it? A data marketplace,...
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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I live for questions and recently, I had someone ask me, does using SELECT * affect Query Store. My immediate gut reaction was, hell no. Of course it doesn’t....
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-03)
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This is a list of links, in no particular order, that you should read in no particular order. But read all of the words at the end of these...
2023-04-24
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Hello Dear Reader! This past week was one I had been looking forward to for quite some time. A couple of months ago I had started reaching out to...
2023-04-24
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I’ve been seeing more and more noise about how ChatGPT can help with technical stuff, writing code, all that. Well, I wanted to know how best to set up...
2023-04-21 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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You can register today for the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit. This year the event is in Seattle, Nov 14-17, and in-person only. The event was a lot of...
2023-04-21 (first published: 2023-04-05)
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This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 4: set up auditing for all Azure...
2023-04-19 (first published: 2023-04-06)
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Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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