Daily Coping 1 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to call a friend to catch up and really listen to them Actually a friend pinged me to ask about a call recently. I made...
2023-03-01
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Blog Posts
Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 4 - Analytical Processing
(2023-Feb-20) The previous posts covered the following areas of Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory:Part 1 - Data CopyPart 2 - Feed ConfigurationPart 3 - Column MetadataThese 3 areas suggested that it is...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Shutting Down Coping Tips
It’s been nearly 3 years of Daily Coping Tips here at the Voice of the DBA. I started these when the pandemic hit and the world shut down. I’ve...
2023-03-01
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Writing a Hello World Go Container Web Application
In this blog post, I will show you how to build a hello world container-based web application in the go programming language. The reason I want to do this...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-19)
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Daily Coping 28 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to thank three people you feel grateful to and tell them why. This is something I tend to do privately, thanking people who’ve impacted my...
2023-02-28
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A Corporate Wellness Day
Today is the corporate Wellness Day at Redgate. It’s a day off for almost everyone in the company, unless they have something that can’t get moved. A few support...
2023-02-27
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Checking the Microsoft Container Registry for new SQL Server images
A while back I wrote a post on how to retrieve the SQL Server images in the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). It’s pretty simple to check the MCR but...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-17)
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Daily Coping 27 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to tell a loved one about the strengths you see in them. For one of my kids, I’m letting them know that I see: responsibility...
2023-02-27
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Out of Your SSMS World, Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio – Louisville Data Technology Group, Feb 2023
It was a lot of fun to speak at the Louisville Data Technology Group in February. Sheila and I presented on Jupyter notebooks in Azure Data Studio. The session...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-14)
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Preparing for TOGAF Certification
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is one of the most well-known architectural frameworks in our industry. TOGAF is a framework that helps organizations implement enterprise architecture as a...
2023-02-27
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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