Daily Coping 1 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down. This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out...
2023-02-01
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Blog Posts
Goal Progress for Jan 2023
The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. I set goals at the beginning of the year,...
2023-02-01
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Introducing… Data On Rails!
Data On Rails is a Data On Wheels project designed to give a platform for up and coming data professionals in the data community. This project is the brainchild...
2023-02-01
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Recovering a TDE Database Without the Certificate
If you don’t have the backups of the certificate and private key from the old server, as well as the password used to encrypt the private key backup then...
2023-02-01
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What is calling my T-SQL scalar function (millions of times)?
In this post we look at a method using Extended Events (XE) to identify what parent objects are calling a given SQL function and how often. The background is...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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When to have multiple data lakes
A question I get asked frequently from customers when discussing Data lake architecture is “Should I use one data lake for all my data, or multiple lakes?”. Ideally, you...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Daily Coping 31 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal. One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with...
2023-01-31
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Flyway Desktop Projects for My PoC
In a previous post, I set up the basic databases for the PoC project I’m working on. In this next post, we’ll get the Flyway Desktop projects set up...
2023-01-31 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-23-2022
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while since I had time to sit down and write out a Monday re-capThis past week was my birthday week. With all the...
2023-01-31
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Daily Coping 30 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to plan something fun and invite others to join you. The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some...
2023-01-30
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Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you’ve been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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