Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Blog Posts
Monday Monitor Tips–Finding CUs for My Instance
How can I quickly get a CU patch for a system that’s out of date? I’ll discuss that situation. You might think you get to patch every instance every...
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption
The post Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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A New Word: the McFly effect
the McFly Effect – n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode, offering you a glimpse...
2024-09-27
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Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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Simple Talks Episode 7
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with Ryan as the main host. Simple Talks is the Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan,...
2024-09-27
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What I learned volunteering at a children's summer camp
"Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten" - Doctor Who.(2024-Sep-13) As September quickly moves forward, with schools starting and kids returning to their routines, the memories of the...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-13)
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Get mentored and coached by me and other industry experts!
This fall you can take the next step in your data leadership journey by joining a cohort of industry peers and get mentored by experts in the field. In...
2024-09-26
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Can You See Who Forced a Plan
I had an excellent group of people in Gothenburg Sweden when I taught there and I was asked: Can You See Who Forced a Plan? I didn’t know the...
2024-09-25 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Copying Content from One Databricks Unity Catalog Catalog to Another
I had a couple of clients who were moving content from development catalogs to production catalogs for the first time. They wanted to copy the schema and data from...
2024-09-25
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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