Free Advanced SQL Course for June: Don’t Miss Out!
Summer is here, and it's the perfect opportunity to enhance your SQL expertise with LearnSQL's special offer. For the entire month of June 2024, they are giving away their...
2024-06-04
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Blog Posts
Large System Databases on SQL Server
This one is an oldie in my blog drafts, but a goodie! So, I will finally post it after nearly three years of sitting around. Thank you, past self,...
2024-06-04
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Automating Container Image Builds with Docker Build Cloud and Github Actions
In a previous post we went through how to use Docker Build Cloud to remotely build a Docker container image from a Github repository. In that example, we kicked...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-17)
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Power BI: Refreshable Excel Files in PBI Service
Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as a quick way for end users to input and manipulate data on their own without...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Sharpen Your SQL Skills: June’s Challenge Awaits!
This June, LearnSQL is throwing down the gauntlet with a fresh SQL Practice challenge. Dive into a real-world gym database and help Christine, the gym's manager, wrangle her data....
2024-06-01
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A New Word: desanté
desanté – n. the brooding delirium of being sick, which makes time slow to a trickly and turns even the most pathetic of tasks into monumental struggles, until the...
2024-05-31
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Denver Dev Day – Best Practices for Database Deployments Resources
I delivered a talk today on database deployment best practices at the Denver Dev Days 2024. This is a great event, and I have been lucky enough to attend...
2024-05-31
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Friday Basics: RPO and RTO
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've tested recovery, but I only briefly covered what RPO and RTO are. This post goes...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #174: Your Favorite Job Interview Question
My blog has been quiet lately. I recently wrapped up a master’s program (more details on that soon, once the formal graduation is behind me) and have been immersed...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Full-Text Search in SQL Server: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Full-Text Search in SQL Server is a feature that provides linguistic search capabilities against text data in SQL Server tables. It allows for searching of character-based data types...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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Blogs
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
A Small LLM Fail
By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
SQL Server Versions: Out With the Old, In With the Supported
By Kevin3NF
If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking...
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