Matillion: strategic to modern at Connect for Health Colorado
As part of its ‘All Cloud’ push that began to take shape in 2019, Connect for Health Colorado (C4) selected Matillion ETL to be its cloud ETL/ELT tool. At...
2021-09-12
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Blog Posts
Setting Trace Flags and Configuring SQL Server Containers
In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of how to configure SQL Server in Docker Containers. First, we will configure a container at runtime by...
2021-09-12
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Setting Trace Flags and Configuring SQL Server in Kubernetes
In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of configuring SQL Server in Kubernetes. First, we will create a Deployment for SQL Server, override the container’s...
2021-09-12
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My personal experience with a split-brain scenario in MSSQL Server
The split-brain scenario in a database environment is a situation whereby the communication link between two different sites is broken, as a result of this situation the production database...
2021-09-11
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AWS BYOC – Bring your own SQL Server cluster with AWS EC2 and SIOS
Originally posted on DataSteve: Introduction They are multiple options to implement HADR solution for SQL Server in AWS public cloud. The easiest way to do that is to use...
2021-09-10 (first published: 2021-08-25)
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Daily Coping 10 Sep 2021
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...
2021-09-10
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Goal Progress for August 2021
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2021. I’m late in putting this out, but here goes. Current...
2021-09-10
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The sysname datatype defaults to not NULL.
The other day I was creating a table to store some metadata. Since the metadata I was collecting (sys.databases.name for ... Continue reading
2021-09-10 (first published: 2021-08-26)
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Daily Coping 9 Sep 2021
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...
2021-09-09
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Remote Desktop: Force the resolution to match the screen size.
One of the things I hate most about using remote desktop is when the resolution for the remote server is ... Continue reading
2021-09-09
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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