Daily Coping 3 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to write down three things you appreciate about yourself. I don’t mind self-evaluation, but I struggle a bit to publicly talk about things I do...
2022-10-03
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Blog Posts
Function Vs. Performance
Recently I was looking through DBA.StackExchange when I saw a pretty simple question that I decided to answer. I went off, set up a test database and some test...
2022-10-03
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Putting counters in names
It’s not all that unusual, or unreasonable to put a counter in a name. For example let’s say you need ... Continue reading
2022-10-03 (first published: 2022-09-13)
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Being a script magpie
Last month (I ran just a little bit late writing this, it was meant to go out 9/29) Brent Ozar ... Continue reading
2022-10-01
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Community Tools Month 2022 - dbatools
The Prompt In July, Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asked us to make September Community Tools Awareness Month.
In September, I want you to improve community knowledge about one free...
2022-10-01
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Daily Coping 30 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find a new way to use one of your strengths or talents. I asked someone for strengths recently. Most of those items are things...
2022-09-30
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Data lake architecture
I have had a lot of conversations with customers to help them understand how to design a data lake. I touched on this in my blog Data lake details,...
2022-09-30
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DELETE TOP x rows with an ORDER BY
This was an interesting question that I was asked yesterday and something that I’d never really thought of before. Can you delete the top x number of rows based...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-15)
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The Redgate 100
The Redgate 100 is a list of 100 people that are influential in the database world in a number of categories.I made the list in a few places, which...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-09)
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Daily Coping 29 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid saying “I should” and make time to do nothing, or do something fun. I’m writing this ahead of time, and I am doing...
2022-09-29
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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From SQL Server On-Premises to Claude Desktop: How I built a Full MCP Pipeline
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Independence Day 2026
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Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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