Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 02-06-2023
Hello Dear Reader! We had a great last week on Tales from the Field. This weekend was also a really nice one. On Saturday a group of friends gathered...
2023-02-13
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Blog Posts
Tempdb Performance Improvements in SQL Server 2022 are Dramatic
Tempdb is always a topic for me whether it’s in my sessions or blogs I have written. However, I’ve never been so excited about it then I am when...
2023-02-13 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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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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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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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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