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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Blog Posts
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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WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take
The post WIT/DEI Mental Health...
2023-03-29 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 03-20-2023 & Kiddos Growing Up
William, right, 11 years ago the morning of our college tour Hello Dear Reader! When I got off the plane from SQLBits I wasn't feeling great. To be honest, I...
2023-03-28
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Building, Deploying, Sharing a Remote Jupyter Book in Azure Data Studio
When working with Azure Data Studio and its support of Jupyter books, you will find there is an option for remote Jupyter books. As shown in the image below,...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-16)
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KQL Series – ingesting data with Azure Data Factory
Background: Azure Data Explorer is a powerful analytics service that allows us to quickly ingest, store, and analyze large volumes of data from various sources. Azure Data Factory is...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-19)
357 reads
SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out
SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out is now available for pre-order from Microsoft Press. This book is far more than a quick update. We've rewritten and refreshed large portions of...
2023-03-25 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Creativity in Technology
I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-15)
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Daily Coping 24 Mar 2023–The Final Tip
Today’s coping tip is to discover the joy in the simple things in life. This is the last coping tip for now. It’s been 3 years, and I hope...
2023-03-24
15 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
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...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
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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