Daily Coping 25 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to connect with someone from a different generation. This tip makes me feel old. When I see “different generation” I used to think of someone...
2022-11-25
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2022 - Day 1 In Pictures
The first "full" day of PASS 2022 kicked off with a bang when Rohan Kumar (@RohanKData) stepped out on the keynote stage to announce SQL Server 2022 was GA...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Select All in a Power BI Slicer–#SQLNewBlogger
One of the things I’ve been working on this year is a Power BI report for the kids I coaco in volleyball. As a part of this, I want...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-09)
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Snowflake Classic UI vs Snowsight
This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight – If anyone does want my feedback on what I like and don’t like about...
2022-11-25
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Daily Coping 24 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to try a new way to practice self-care and be kind to yourself. One of the things that I learned to do better during the...
2022-11-24
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Daily Coping 23 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to build new ideas by thinking “Yes, and what if…”. I tend to look for the holes, problems, limitations, and downside of various proposals. I’ve...
2022-11-23
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Testing the code (T-SQL Tuesday #156)
Foreword
Even though I picked the question, I struggled to answer it.
Following my train of thought - production code should be of the highest quality. To enforce quality, we use...
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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What is production grade code? : T-SQL Tuesday #156
It’s that time of the month again! It’s T-SQL Tuesday and this month Tom Zika (blog|twitter) is hosting. Tom would ... Continue reading
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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Daily Coping 22 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something playful outdoors. Easy. Skiing today. First day of the season. I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server...
2022-11-22
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Daily Coping 21 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to revisit a coping tip from the past and see if it helped you.. I came up with this one after I tried to do...
2022-11-21
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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