Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 4: Aliasing all the things

I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....

Defaults In msdb Database

The defaults in the msdb database are about what is missing. It's missing quite a few things that could be critical to your environment.
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I use sp_WhoIsActive a lot. I’m extremely grateful for Adam Machanic writing it. It has tons of options that let...

Pro SQL Server Linux–Connecting and Building an App

As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...

Last Week Reading (2019-01-27)

Hello guys, a few internet posts that you might find interested. Press Azure SQL Analytics—Automating Deployment Apparently, it wasn’t an...

I’m a Friend of Redgate for Another Year!

I am very proud and happy to be a Friend of Redgate for a ninth year! I had to ask Redgate when...

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We had 17 register and 8 attend our first lunch meetup of the year at Fuzzy’s Tacos Great venue. $10...

SQLOrlando Tax Filing

Last year (the first filing) I had my accountant do the filing for SQLOrlando, but this year I wanted to...