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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Blog Posts
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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Adding microseconds to a timestamp in Azure Data Factory
(2023-Apr-25) It’s not hard to see that many different teams were involved in building Azure Data Factory (ADF) product at Microsoft. It doesn’t have conformed constraints for naming the objects...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Find out how fast is your SQL database growing using the backup metadata from msdb
Sometimes I need to know how fast a database is growing, or which particular database is growing the most out of all the databases on a SQL instance. Now...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Blogs
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
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Multiple Sequence Values
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