Advice I Like: Apologies
How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse – from Excellent Advice for Living This is great advice. I remember myself often saying “I’m...
2025-01-17
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Blog Posts
Build a Serverless Todo App With AWS, Pulumi, and Python
Try this step-by-step guide to build and deploy a scalable serverless app that’s accessible through a RESTful API.Developers charged with building modern, scalable applications often face the burden of having...
2025-01-17
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Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments
One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-10)
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Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and surfing the web isn't good for us, but we still do it. Why? Because it...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-07)
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Master SQL Subqueries with This Free Course
Want to boost your SQL game? Check out this free course, SQL Subqueries: Real-World Exercises for All Levels. It covers subqueries – a must-have tool for any SQL pro....
2025-01-16
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2025-01-16
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How to Convert FileTime to DateTime
One of my customers recently wanted to rename each of the SQL audit files will the datetime stamp of when it was created. I explained to them the filename...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2024-11-05)
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SQL Server Error 9002 – Full Transaction Log
A full transaction log can occur for a number of reasons. Typically it is due to the log not being truncated with regular transaction log backups, or something else...
2025-01-15
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Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows and tooling. A lot of people have loved SQL Compare or SQL Source Control for...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2025-01-08)
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SQL Saturday Oregon & SW Washington 2024
Wow I am so late in posting these notes! But this conference was amazing, so figured still good to post my notes from the incredible sessions I attended! Hope...
2025-01-14
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Blogs
VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”
By Tim Radney
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...
Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
By Vinay Thakur
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...
Free Webinar about Columnstore Indexes
I’m doing a small series on indexing basics for SQL Server, and on May...
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SSoL Support on the OS
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