Come to VS Live Austin in June
I’ll be at VS Live this June to speak on a couple of topics. I love that city and I’m excited to get back to an in-person event. You...
2022-05-20 (first published: 2022-05-02)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 20 May 2020
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...
2022-05-20
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SQL Homework – May 2022 – Books on Line
No one knows everything. Ask any senior level person in IT and they’ll tell you that they spend plenty of ... Continue reading
2022-05-20 (first published: 2022-05-05)
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Daily Coping 19 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...
2022-05-19
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a ... Continue reading
2022-05-19
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Daily Coping 18 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...
2022-05-18
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 2
(2022-May-08) If you happened to read the Part 1 of this blog series, the main message of it was the Azure Data Factory Copy activity was not just a simple...
2022-05-18 (first published: 2022-05-09)
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My updated course “Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here, or if...
2022-05-18 (first published: 2022-05-09)
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Daily Coping 17 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...
2022-05-17
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Getting a list of the articles in a publication.
The other day I was asked to supply a list of all of the tables being replicated into a given ... Continue reading
2022-05-17
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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