Finding Memorial Day–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. It’s Memorial Day in the US. A holiday,...
2022-05-30
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Blog Posts
TSQL Tuesday #150 – My first technical job
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday 150: My first technical job
I am glad to be contributing to the 150th blog party started by Adam Machanic and has helped so many get our blogs going. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Daily Coping 27 May 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...
2022-05-27
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Data Engineer Diary: How to make Power BI Gateway work in an environment with a proxy
With this blog post, I would like to show and describe to you the last lesson that I learned on my recent project regarding the installation and configuration of...
2022-05-27 (first published: 2022-04-04)
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KQL Series – Interactive Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog is about how we can do interactive analytics with Azure Data Explorer to explore data with ad hoc, interactive, and lightning fast queries over small to extremely...
2022-05-27 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Techorama 2022 Slides
I had a great time at Techorama. I’ll do a writeup on the event, but for now, here are my slides. The VCS Primer Adopting a DevOps Process for...
2022-05-27
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Daily Coping 26 May 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...
2022-05-26
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Daily Coping 25 May 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...
2022-05-25
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Data is not immutable
Information — in the form of data — usually stored as binary 1s and 0s in an electronic data store, is not immutable. Even the hardiest data storage designed...
2022-05-25
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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