New Database Job – The 6 Month Plan
So, we made it through our first 90 days, things start getting tougher now as now we really got to start looking at getting projects
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2022-12-19 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Blog Posts
SQL Homework – December 2022 – What’s new in SQL Server?
SQL Server 2022 has been released! Long live SQL Server! No really, I’ve still got a while before retirement. I ... Continue reading
2022-12-19 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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What is TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?
TDE is referred to as a “transparent” form of encryption. What that means is that the process of encrypting and decrypting data is fully performed in the background. The...
2022-12-19
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Creating a user for a STONITH resource in vSphere
I previously blogged about how to create a STONITH resource for a pacemaker cluster in VMWare virtual machines. Ok, I have a confession…you need to specify credentials when creating...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Daily Coping 16 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to send a gift to someone new. I have been sending gifts to my daughter at college every month or so, but I decided I...
2022-12-16
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My Office Setup
At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to support a charity or cause you care about. My big causes are food, housing, and education for those that are struggling. I like to...
2022-12-15
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End of year planning: T-SQL Tuesday #157
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! And Garry Bargsley (blog|twitter) has asked us what we have planned for the end of the ... Continue reading
2022-12-15 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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My presentation recordings of data architectures
Over the years I have presented a ton (see the list), and some of those presentations were recorded. I had put some of them on my YouTube channel, but...
2022-12-15
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Daily Coping 14 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to offer to help someone who is facing difficulties now. I’ve been very lucky in life. I find that success often has me associating with...
2022-12-14
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Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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Getting The Database Name
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Getting The Database Name
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