25 Years of Redgate
I’m in Austin today, ready for the Redgate Software 25th Birthday celebration. The company started in 1999 and this is their 25th birthday. All of our offices are celebrating,...
2024-07-17
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Blog Posts
Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Copilot is an app that uses AI to help you find information, create content, and get things done faster (see What Is Copilot? Microsoft’s AI Assistant Explained). Copilot is...
2024-07-17 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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Real-World SQL Mastery: Your Hands-On, Mess-Free Sandbox
Are you ready to take your SQL skills from theoretical to tactical? If you've been yearning for a risk-free environment to test, experiment, and refine your SQL queries against...
2024-07-17 (first published: 2024-07-06)
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The Annual SQL Saturday in Baton Rouge
I’ve been to quite a few of the SQL Saturday Baton Rouge events. There have been 10 with the 11th coming in a couple weeks. The crew down there...
2024-07-17
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Jan Vaněk: Na podpis smlouvy jsem přišel v kiltu a teď vedu SWAT tým
The post Jan Vaněk: Na podpis smlouvy jsem přišel v kiltu a teď vedu SWAT tým appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-07-16
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2024-07-16
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Modifying sp_QuickieStore Returned Column Order
I love QuickieStore, but I wanted some columns to be at the front end of the results returned. Namely, I wanted top_waits, query_sql_text, and query_plan right after database name....
2024-07-15 (first published: 2024-07-03)
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Query Store Keeps Switching Itself Off, Getting it Moving Again
I recently received a complaint that Query Store for a particular database was turned off, which was strange as that particular database has seen quite a few performance issues...
2024-07-15 (first published: 2024-07-04)
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Risk with Not Patching and Upgrading SQL Server
Working with SQL Server over the past 25 years for various organizations all over the world, I usually always find a database server that is well outside of support....
2024-07-15
36 reads
A New Word: Fitching
fitching – v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good – wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour...
2024-07-12
22 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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