PASS Data Community Summit 2021 - I'm Speaking!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to...
2021-08-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Server on Kubernetes Book Published!
I’m super proud to announce that Ben E. Weissman and I have published SQL Server on Kubernetes – Designing and Building a Modern Data Platform available now at Apress...
2021-08-20 (first published: 2021-08-04)
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A new presentation on Auditing your databases
I’m giving a presentation at the PASS Data Community Summit 2021 being put on by Redgate! It’s going to be ... Continue reading
2021-08-19
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Daily Coping 19 Aug 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...
2021-08-19
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Daily Coping 18 Aug 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...
2021-08-18
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Finding Failed Job Steps
Kendra’s query was a good starting point, and I used most of it in the first CTE shown below. This query basically looks at msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory and msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity, joining them...
2021-08-18
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Scaling down in the cloud
I may be completely off base here, but I’ve noticed a correlation between folks who use Amazon Web Services and their understanding that once you scale up a service...
2021-08-18
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SQL Homework – August 2021 – Security Standards
A few years back (wow time flies) I had you Work with Security. It’s been a while so if you ... Continue reading
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-03)
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Updating SQL Server container memory limits on the fly
When running multiple SQL Server containers on a Docker host we should always be setting CPU and Memory limits for each container (see the flags for memory and cpus...
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-06)
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For #JohnsDad
Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world. Much too early. Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his...
2021-08-17
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers