Opening your SQL Backup Folder using Powershell

Sometimes I find remembering where a particular server sends its backups to a nightmare. You might have servers backing up to different locations, you might have different locations for...

The Impact of Change

I started this summary on LinkedIn. Check out that article here. I only used LinkedIn to introduce what is happening, if you’re interested in learning more keep reading. First,...

VS Live Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone that came to my talk at VS Live today. I’ve uploaded the slides to the blog. Here are the two decks: Using CI To Prevent Database...

An auditing mind set

I little while back I presented at Pass Data Community Summit. Specifically the presentation was Auditing your data and data ... Continue reading

Azure Storage Replication Types

Storage Accounts are pretty much integrated into so many different designs in Azure, whether you are using Azure Synapse, 3rd party product like Snowflake, or Event Streaming designs –...

Daily Coping 15 Jun 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...

Populating PostgreSQL JSONB column using Azure Data Factory Data Flow

(2022-May-31) 
Personal notes of one of the recent ADF JSON pipeline development to remember how to use it next time.
Requirements:

Sourcing data comes from a SQL Server database
The destination is a...

T-SQL Tuesday #151 Coding Standards

This month the T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by my good friend, Mala. This is her fourth time hosting and she has a good topic this time. While...

Using a Regular Expression to Detect a Number–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Here are some hints to get started. I...

Coding Standards (T-SQL Tuesday #151)

Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan, and it’s about coding standards. Fortunately, I may forget several basic ones because my team probably eradicated them long ago.
I’ll go with...