Hello, again reader… Today, I will discuss a gotcha I ran across with SQL Server Temporal Tables. In my day-to-day environment, we do not use Temporal Tables widely. However,...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Hello Dear Reader! Last week was a week we have been building towards since the launch of Tales from the Field. My favorite conference every single year, Live! 360. ...
2022-11-21
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If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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You can find the slides and demo scripts for my sessions at Cloudbrew (Snowflake) and PASS Data Community Summit (Migrate SSIS skills to ADF) in my Github repo. If...
2022-11-19
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Thank you to everyone who made it out to PASS Data Community Summit! I have greatly enjoyed meeting so many fellow data nerds and have learned so much from...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Today’s coping tip is to be creative, cook, draw, write, paint, make, or inspire. While I do play some guitar, I’m not much for painting. Certainly I write a...
2022-11-18
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Recently I had to go through some training that asked me to evaluate some text. I needed to tally some data up, and decided Word and Excel were quick...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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Hello Dear Reader! Last week was Halloween and I hope you all had a fantastic time. Halloween has long been my favorite holiday. The cost of participation is imagination,...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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Happy to be chosen to live blog the keynote events out at the PASSDataSummit in Seattle, Washington this week. This page will be updated through the Keynotes, all you...
2022-11-17
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Today’s coping tip is to try out a new way of being physically active. My routine for physical activity is yoga 2-3 times a week, weight lifting a couple...
2022-11-17
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By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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