T-SQL Tuesday #113 – What Do I Use MY Databases For?

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog is brought to us by Todd Kleinhans (b | t) and this month topic is about what you use databases in your personal life. ...

T-SQL Tuesday #113 -A Database for the Great Outdoors

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Todd Kleinhans (blog | twitter) who wants to know what we’re doing with databases outside of work.

I’m curious- outside of work and...

T-SQL Tuesday #113–Personal Databases

This month we have a really interesting question for the T-SQL Tuesday invitation. Todd Kleinhans is the host and asks about personal databases. Do we use them for anything?...

Women in Tech Talk Tech

March is Women’s History Month, to celebrate the PASS Women in Technology Virtual Group (@PASS_WIT) held a webcast featuring prominent...

Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)

Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...

Database In Recovery Redux

One of the more gut-wrenching experiences of a DBA is to have a database get stuck in recovery. This typically happens when the server was rebooted unexpectedly and typically...

Database In Recovery Redux

One of the more gut-wrenching experiences of a DBA is to have a database get stuck in recovery. This typically happens when the server was rebooted unexpectedly and typically...

Generating a Jupyter Notebook for Glenn Berry’s Diagnostic Queries with PowerShell

The March release of Azure Data Studio now supports Jupyter Notebooks with SQL kernels. This is a very interesting feature...

Learning Jupyter Notebooks

I’m starting the process of learning how to use Jupyter Notebooks. Notebooks are documents that contain live code, commentary, results, pictures and more. Jupyter Notebooks are used for presentations,...

My Very First Azure SQL Database

I recently delivered my very first SQL Saturday pre-con for SQL Saturday Richmond on Friday, March 29, 2019.  You can read about that adventure here. As part of the...