Daily Coping 10 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to send a message to let someone know you’re thinking of them. I reached out a friend the other day, someone I know from the...
2023-02-10
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 9 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to write down your hopes or plans for the future. Hopes are vague, and plans are easier, so here are some plans: Plan a trip...
2023-02-09
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Allow a user to only trigger pipelines in Azure Data Factory
Typically you have a bunch of pipelines that are started by one or more triggers. Sometimes, a pipeline needs to be manually triggered. For example, when the finance department...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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Creating a Flyway Desktop Shadow Database in PostgreSQL
In order to generate migrations, we need to configure Flyway to use a shadow database. This post looks at that process. This is part of a series of working...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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Recovering data with crash consistent snapshots
When we talk about snapshots of SQL Server there are two types, application consistent snapshots and crash consistent snapshots. Application consistent snapshots require freezing IO on a database allowing...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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Daily Coping 7 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to go to bed in good time and allow yourself to recharge. I need this reminder. Lately I’ve struggled to sleep well, through the night,...
2023-02-07
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RMOUG Training Days in Denver
Next week I’m heading to the Lowry Conference Center in Denver for the RMOUG Training Days. The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group has put this on for years, and...
2023-02-07
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Daily Coping 6 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get back in contact with an old friend. This is something I don’t do too often, but I have done a few times. I’ve...
2023-02-06
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Script to Install the Tools I Use on My Jumpbox
I wrote a blog post a few months ago about the tools I use on my jumpbox you can read here. Since then, I have
The post Script to Install...
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-31-2023
Hello Dear Reader! After a weekend with a lot of activities, it was a down week here at Casa Balls. Woke up and walked a lot. I'm still not...
2023-02-06
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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