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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Blog Posts
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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EightKB 2023
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2023…happening on May 24th. We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit here: – https://sessionize.com/eightkb-may-2023/...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Logic App errors out when using variables in a SharePoint Action
I have a Logic App that reads out a SharePoint library and stores all the documents found into Azure Blob Storage (ADF only supports Lists). I was trying to...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Migrating or Recovering a TDE Protected Database
When encrypting a database with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a vital consideration is to make sure we are prepared for the scenario where something goes wrong. For instance, if...
2023-01-30
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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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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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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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