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
23 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
13 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
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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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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