#PowershellBasics: Working with arrays
I mentioned arrays in a previous post so I figured I should talk about what they are and how to ... Continue reading
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Blog Posts
2019 PASS Summit Recap from a First Timer
Heading to PASS Summit… It is Sunday the week of PASS Summit and I am at the airport after a relaxing morning with my wife and son. Unfortunately, I...
2019-12-06
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Call to Action – Mentoring
A few weeks ago I attended the annual PASS Summit conference in beautiful Seattle, Washington. This is an event that I look forward to every year. Being able to...
2019-12-06
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Cleaning up the [NOT] NULL for Columns with SQL Prompt 10
SQL Prompt 10 is out and there are a few interesting things that have changed in the product. One of these is the Quick Fixes, inspired by some other...
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
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HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
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State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
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Collecting Diagnostic data from multiple SQL Server instances with dbatools
Keeping their SQL Server instances under control is a crucial part of the job of a DBA. SQL Server offers a wide variety of DMVs to query in order...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-24)
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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM
Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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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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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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