AWS RDS Backups
One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service when it comes to data is the fact that you get RDS backups, built in. Go...
2022-08-22
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Blog Posts
Azure DevOps: Deploying Power BI reports with a parameterized gateway-based Data Source
(2022-Aug-08) You have developed your Power BI report, by connecting one or more sourcing datasets, building your data model and enriching it with interactive and engaging visualizations. Now you are...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Daily Coping 22 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-22
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: Object Changes
I hear this one all the time: How do I find out who implemented object changes? I also get: Can I see the query that caused object changes? Let’s...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Daily Coping 19 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-19
12 reads
Data Relay Speaker Diversity and Feeling Included
Back in 2018, wow four years ago, I presented at all five stops of Data Relay and rode the bus. For those that don’t know
The post Data Relay Speaker...
2022-08-19 (first published: 2022-07-28)
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Solar Production After 5 Months in Power BI
I’ve been tracking my usage and comparing that with the estimates for my solar power system. I wrote about the database design and tracking the usage and some of...
2022-08-19 (first published: 2022-08-03)
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Creating TAIL on Windows for Text Files
UPDATE: Article changed based on the comment from Mr. Sewell. I wrote recently about making a HEAD utility to find the top few lines from a text file. I...
2022-08-18 (first published: 2022-08-17)
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Daily Coping 18 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-18
11 reads
Cool Stuff in SQL Server 2022 – IS DISTINCT FROM
I have a blog post series about some nice features in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse; one of them is about the IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM predicate. I was...
2022-08-17 (first published: 2022-08-04)
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Blogs
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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