T-SQL Tuesday #128: Learn From Others
Introduction This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Kerry Tyler. The subject is a recent mistake that was made and what was required to fix it. These don’t have to be SQL...
2020-07-14
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 13 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-13
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The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 1]
Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure
I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...
2020-07-13
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Using Docker Volumes for SQL Server in Linux
No, not that kind of volume! Over the past couple of blog posts, I have been talking about the versatility of deploying SQL Server with Docker. This combination is...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-07-03)
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Big Data Storage in Microsoft Azure
Azure storage is a Microsoft solution designed to store your data on it with different models (Blobs, Tables, Queue, File Shares, and Disks) to know the differences, usage, High...
2020-07-12
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Last Week Reading (2020-07-12)
Press Azure resource providers operations List of all of the available ADF-specific RBAC permissions. Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure The power of What-If within ARM Template deployments. Collecting custom...
2020-07-12
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Daily Coping 10 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-10
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Measuring Well Being
I need to write something more on this, but it struck me that this is something I wish previous employers had done, anonymously, and reported results back to others....
2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-29)
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Thoughts As Pride Month 2020 Comes to a Close
I’ve begun working on developing a couple of small habits this month, thanks largely to Andy Mallon‘s helpful advocacy. Becoming more consistent in sharing my pronouns My pronouns are...
2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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