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2024-12-04 (first published: 2024-11-25)
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Blog Posts
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file would be. In QA, I have (relatively) large dbs (compared to prod). Enter the pgstattuple...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-21)
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SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless) Availability Group to seed a database from a Windows SQL instance into a pod in...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-19)
251 reads
AI Step 1
As this is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) World, things are changing. We can see that everywhere you look, even now, when writing a blog, I could feel it today :)....
2024-12-01
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Beginner’s Guide: Building a Dockerized Todo App with React, Chakra UI, and Rust for Backend
In a containerized app, React and Chakra UI provide a robust and accessible user interface, while Rust delivers performance and safety on the backend.A Dockerized todo app is a to-do...
2024-11-30
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A New Word: Nachlophobia
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial in the moment, an audit of your life...
2024-11-29
137 reads
Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-19)
206 reads
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or maybe you need an easy way to find broken field references in a report? Certain...
2024-11-27
22 reads
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or maybe you need an easy way to find broken field references in a report? Certain...
2024-11-27
31 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
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