Meetings Are Work Too
So Many Meetings I’ve said it. We’ve all said it.
I can’t get any work done today, I’ve got so many meetings.
I need to be reminded on occasion that for...
2022-09-20
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 19 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to remember if you’re busy, allow yourself to pause and take a break. I’m in the UK today, and at the Redgate...
2022-09-19
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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Mental Health Bullet Journal – Collect Data to Help Your Mental Health
Purpose This blog and bullet journal was specially created to help me with my tendency to have suicidal ideation, depressive, and manic episodes related to
The post Mental Health Bullet...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-06)
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Unexpected Blocking during the Indexed View Creation
The problem
There was a need to make changes to a table with an Indexed View. Since Indexed Views must be created with SCHEMABINDING, the View must be dropped and...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Comment might be free, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen
I have turned off comments on this site. All existing comments have been removed. Even the nice ones from awesome people, and the helpful ones, and the ones answering...
2022-09-16
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Daily Coping 16 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to aim to be good enough, rather than perfect. I find that many of us that work in technology want a solution...
2022-09-16
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Future Data Driven
I was honored to speak at Future Data Driven last year. This year has a great lineup with some fantastic sessions on data related topics. Register today for the...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-02)
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Web Hosting SQL Database Management Made Easy With Linux
If you’ve never used Linux before, you might wonder how to manage a database on a server. Managing a database can be simple or complex, depending on the needs...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-01)
256 reads
Daily Coping 15 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to do something you really enjoy. I do enjoy life, and I’m lucky that I have the chance to do a lot...
2022-09-15
16 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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