The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann was recommended to me by a colleague. The author has worked at companies...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-29)
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Today’s coping tip is to look back at a previous coping tip that required planning and evaluate how it helped. One of my tips in December was to listen...
2023-01-09
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In this quick post we’re going to look at an additional step you should take to secure your TDE databases. This is a step you won’t find in any...
2023-01-09
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Let me start by wishing everyone the best for the year 2023! We’re going to kick off the new year with a virtual conference: the Data Community Austria Day...
2023-01-09
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In early 2022, Microsoft released a new activity in Azure Data Factory (ADF) called the Script activity. The Script activity allows you to execute one or more SQL statements...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-22)
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Today’s coping tip is to do something outdoors today. Enjoy nature. I’m writing this a few days ahead, so I’m using an activity I did over the weekend. The...
2023-01-06
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This is the goal setting post for 2023. The previous ones were: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 As with previous years, I’ll break these into three categories: career, personal,...
2023-01-06
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Last year I set a bunch of goals, and I thought I did pretty good working on them. Not amazing, but pretty good. This year, I want to attack...
2023-01-06
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the easiest ways of encrypting your data at rest. In the previous posts we looked at what TDE is and how it...
2023-01-06
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We got a solar system in 2022 to try and fix some of our power costs and hedge against the future. We were fairly confident it would work well,...
2023-01-06 (first published: 2022-12-28)
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Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers