T-SQL Tuesday 163: Best piece of career advice
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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Blog Posts
What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan?
Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...
2023-06-20 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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Flyway with Multiple Folders
A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-05-31)
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Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips
Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 06-12-2023 Cooking, Father's Day, & the Shrinking Household
Hello Dear Reader! This past week was a busy one. As we've started to settle into the new house we are transitioning from eating out or having meals delivered,...
2023-06-19
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Under Promise and Overdeliver
If you under promise and overdeliver then you will always have happy clients.
2023-06-19
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A New Word: Astrophe
astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth. Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in...
2023-06-16
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Have You Reviewed Your Azure Storage Bill Lately?
At the end of 2021, I started using the new SFTP preview feature on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. It was a great new addition to the...
2023-06-16
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Heading to That Conference
I’ve been working with Ryan Booz a bit more and as we’ve talked over the last few weeks, he has asked me a few times if I’ve booked travel...
2023-06-16
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Masking Columns in Azure SQL and SQL Server: Safeguarding Sensitive Data
Information security and privacy are key in today’s data-driven world. Sensitive data needs to be protected from unauthorized access. With column masking in SQL Server and Azure SQL, you...
2023-06-16 (first published: 2023-06-01)
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Blogs
AI Experiments: Claude Solved a DAB Issue
By Steve Jones
I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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