Daily Coping 28 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to realize you can’t do everything; what are your three top priorities now? It’s a few weeks before the Data Community Summit, volleyball starts, vacation...
2022-10-28
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Blog Posts
I Hope Someone Brings Back Game Night
A few years ago at the Summit, Andy Warren and I set up a Game night. We convinced the organizers to give us a room for a few hours...
2022-10-28
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Memphis SQL Saturday 2022 & a Notebook
Back in person again! It is awesome to be able to get back into the SQL community and see fellow data professionals. A huge shout out to the Memphis...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-18)
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What’s next: New beginnings!
I’m both excited and frankly relieved to say that I’ve found a new position. Starting Wed Nov 2nd I’ll be ... Continue reading
2022-10-28
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Adding AD group perms to SQL Server
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg...
2022-10-27
14 reads
Daily Coping 27 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to write down three specific things that have gone well recently. Easy, as a lot of things have gone well. I’m going with some travel...
2022-10-27
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Long time, no posts
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022....
2022-10-27
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Snowflake – Search Optimisation Service
Rarely do I say I love a feature across any technologies I have come across, in the snowflake world this is right up there. I tend to find this...
2022-10-27
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250th Blog Post
Kristyna and I were working through some updates to our site and realize that this was going to be our 250th blog post on Data on Wheels. I thought...
2022-10-26
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Daily Coping 26 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to recognize that you have a choice in what to prioritize A good one for me, especially as I’m a little stressed and overloaded with...
2022-10-26
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers