Daily Coping 10 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to make time to do something kind for yourself. Learning to better take care of myself is something that I’ve been working on throughout the...
2023-01-10
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Blog Posts
The Cost of not Following the Regulations Around Data
Brent Ozar shared in his weekly links this week a GDPR penalty tracker which makes for thought-provoking reading. Regular readers of this blog will know I have a keen...
2023-01-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #158–Implementing Worst Practices
Not that I’m looking to do this, but that’s the invitation from Raul Gonzalez this month. This is the monthly blog party where we write on a topic chosen...
2023-01-10
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Book Review – Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann was recommended to me by a colleague. The author has worked at companies...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-29)
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Daily Coping 9 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to look back at a previous coping tip that required planning and evaluate how it helped. One of my tips in December was to listen...
2023-01-09
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Securing the Root Keys for TDE
In this quick post we’re going to look at an additional step you should take to secure your TDE databases. This is a step you won’t find in any...
2023-01-09
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Speaking at Data Community Austria Day 2023
Let me start by wishing everyone the best for the year 2023! We’re going to kick off the new year with a virtual conference: the Data Community Austria Day...
2023-01-09
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Use the output of a Script activity as the items in a ForEach activity in Data Factory
In early 2022, Microsoft released a new activity in Azure Data Factory (ADF) called the Script activity. The Script activity allows you to execute one or more SQL statements...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-22)
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Daily Coping 6 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to do something outdoors today. Enjoy nature. I’m writing this a few days ahead, so I’m using an activity I did over the weekend. The...
2023-01-06
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Goals for 2023
This is the goal setting post for 2023. The previous ones were: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 As with previous years, I’ll break these into three categories: career, personal,...
2023-01-06
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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