Outlining Goals in 2023
Last year I set a bunch of goals, and I thought I did pretty good working on them. Not amazing, but pretty good. This year, I want to attack...
2023-01-06
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Blog Posts
Setting up TDE
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the easiest ways of encrypting your data at rest. In the previous posts we looked at what TDE is and how it...
2023-01-06
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Solar Projection v Estimates
We got a solar system in 2022 to try and fix some of our power costs and hedge against the future. We were fairly confident it would work well,...
2023-01-06 (first published: 2022-12-28)
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SQLBits 2023
Super excited that I was selected to speak at SQLBits 2023. The conference is taking place 14-18 March 2023 in Wales. I have never been to Wales and am...
2023-01-06 (first published: 2022-12-23)
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Daily Coping 5 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to set aside a regular time for the next month for an activity you love . This is a big month for me, with coaching...
2023-01-05
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Daily Coping 4 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to share something helpful with a friend that you learned recently. I share a lot with my wife and kids. They are a big part...
2023-01-04
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Monitoring with the Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics Exporter
This post introduces you to the Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics Exporter. It shows you how to get started quickly using Docker Compose so you can monitor your Pure Storage...
2023-01-04 (first published: 2022-12-20)
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Understanding Keys and Certificates with TDE
When you first look at the encryption hierarchy for TDE in SQL Server it can be a bit daunting. There seem to be a lot of objects involved and...
2023-01-04 (first published: 2022-12-21)
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Daily Coping 3 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to use one of your strengths in a new or creative way. I have a lot of strengths. They’ve helped me to be successful. This...
2023-01-03
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Daily Coping 2 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to start the new year off with something new – listen, watch, read something completely different. I started listening to more country music last year....
2023-01-02
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
Understanding Fabric MCP
By James Serra
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...
AWS RDS Aurora - our first approach
When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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