The HUGE announcement at Microsoft Build yesterday was Microsoft Fabric (see Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI), now available in public preview. I have been...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-24)
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Thank you to Data Platform WIT and DEI for hosting Mental Health and Wellness Day! I was honored to be included. To see the full lineup, please visit https://www.meetup.com/data-platform-dei/events/293091941/...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-05)
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In SQL Server you can also compress your encrypted backups. Unlike TDE this has been possible with Backup Encryption since the feature was first made available, and there have...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-24)
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When you've got the symptoms of a database issue you can run a series of diagnostic queries to try and drill down on the problem and then start figuring...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-16)
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I have been experimenting more and more with ChatGPT on a regular basis. I’m interested and curious how this will help. I had a friend at one of the...
2023-05-26
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A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was interesting, so decided to test this out. This is a short post on using SQL...
2023-05-26
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I have been living with ALS for the past two years. I was diagnosed in September 2022 but had my first symptoms and started researching what was going on...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-25)
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I delivered a presentation for the Houston SQL Server User Group tonight, virtually from Colorado. I’d love to go down, but couldn’t do it today. The slides for the...
2023-05-25
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I’m going to attend the Denver Dev Days 2023 in June. I submitted a few sessions and got two picked. I’ll be doing these talks: Blogging for the Tech...
2023-05-25
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Microsoft states that enabling TDE usually has a performance overhead of 2–4%. That doesn’t sound like very much, and personally I wouldn’t let it bother me if I want...
2023-05-24 (first published: 2023-05-10)
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Hello Dear Reader! Sorry this is so late, moving houses has gotten me a...
Yesterday at Microsoft Build, a significant announcement took place—the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, which...
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