Social Anxiety and Events Like the PASS Summit
If you are an introvert like me, events like the PASS Summit can call forth your social anxiety. I know this past week, I definitely felt it, even though...
2024-11-11
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Skidding
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt. I used to make lots of sarcastic comments. Some...
2024-11-08
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PASS Summit – Thursday
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support multiple data platforms is growing and becoming the norm. This has been my experience and...
2024-11-08
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Tell me the positives of your solution
I still have a tendency to talk about all the cons of a proposed solution I don’t believe is the optimal one. There’s an old saying that “no one...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-29)
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Using SQL Compare in Read-Only Databases
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...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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PASS Summit 2024 – Wednesday
A common theme in the PASS Summits I've attended is community and that's definitely true this year. It's one of the reasons I have loved coming when I can....
2024-11-07
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Taming Database Challenges: Insights from Redgate Keynote
I am excited to cover the Microsoft Keynote on Day 2: Redgate Keynote: Simplifying Complexity – Making the Database Work in the Real World. As the database landscape grows...
2024-11-07
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Introduction to Advanced Analytics
The post Introduction to Advanced Analytics appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-11-06 (first published: 2024-10-27)
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PASS Summit 2024 – A Very Different World
The last data centric conference I attended was the PASS Summit in 2019. A few months later, much of the world went on lockdown due to COVID. Since then,...
2024-11-06
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Using Copilot to help me update SQL Saturday
An interesting AI experiment here with Copilot from GitHub in handling some code I don’t work with that often. Read on and watch. This is part of a series...
2024-11-06 (first published: 2024-10-16)
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
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...
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