Presenting On Basics Is Difficult
Over the last year, at work and after work, I’ve been teaching myself a lot of brand new technologies. As such, I’m reliant on others to have put together...
2023-01-30
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Blog Posts
New Pluralsight Course – Securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters
My new course “Securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters”, co-authored with my good friend and colleague Ben E. Weissman, is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to...
2023-01-28
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Daily Coping 27 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to try something new to get out of your comfort zone. I did two things here. First, I’ve been participating in a Jan American Cancer...
2023-01-27
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Getting Started Connecting to a Database with Flyway
In a previous post, I got Flyway installed as a CLI utility (command line interface). This post will look at the first connection to a database. If you need...
2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-11)
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Impact of Eliminating Implicit Conversions in JDBC Driver
Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop
The post Impact of Eliminating...
2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Join Denny Cherry and Associates at SQL Bits 2023
I am very excited and lucky to be speaking once again at SQLBits along with my DCAC colleagues. SQLBits, the largest Data Platform conference in Europe, held this year...
2023-01-27
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Things to look out for while TDE is encrypting existing data
Monitoring for Problems The encryption of your existing data occurs as a background process referred to as the encryption scan, but it will consume resources while it runs, so...
2023-01-27
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Daily Coping 26 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on what’s good, even if today feels tough. Yesterday was a tough day. I got busy, distracted, had some bad news come up,...
2023-01-26
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Working With Tags in FlashArray using PowerShell
Introduction Purity is the operating environment that runs Pure Storage products like FlashArray and Cloud Block Store. Starting in Purity 6.0, you can assign tags to objects. This post...
2023-01-26
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Daily Coping 25 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to be gentle with yourself when you make mistakes. I forgot about a commitment. I had agreed to do a webinar and prepare some content....
2023-01-25
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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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