Daily Coping 2 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to enjoy new music today: play, sing, dance, or listen. I’m on the road this week, so it’s music for me. Not a lot of...
2022-12-02
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Blog Posts
Goal Progress for Nov 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. Another month of busy stuff. A long trip for the...
2022-12-02
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On Hybrid Events
In my blog post last night on Days 1 and 2 of the PASS Summit, I included the following comment:
(Along with that, I think having "hybrid" events like our...
2022-12-02 (first published: 2022-11-16)
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PGSQL PHRIDAY #3: What is the PostgreSQL Community To You?
Very excited to take part in my third #PGSQLPhriday blogging event, even more so because it’s a topic that’s quite near and dear to my heart, community. To say...
2022-12-02
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SQLibrium SQL Server on VMware training now free
I’m proud to be a part of the SQL Server communities globally. I do everything I can do to give back when I can. Too many times, I feel...
2022-12-02 (first published: 2022-11-15)
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Daily Coping 1 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to discover your artistic side. Design a friendly greeting card. A fun one for me today. I saw this just after returning from the PASS...
2022-12-01
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Daily Coping 29 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make a meal using a recipe or ingredient you’ve not tried before. It’s the holidays, and my daughter is home. She’s GF, so I’m...
2022-11-30
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Daily Coping 30 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to learn a new skill from a friend or share one of yours with them. I like learning, so in this case, I took advantage...
2022-11-30
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In SQL Server 2022, set your transaction log file autogrowth rate to 64 MB
A late-breaking change that arrived in SQL Server 2022 is an important one that could be a new line item in your health checks.
The basics:
Starting with SQL Server 2022,...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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Blogs
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...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers