Living with Chronic Suicidal Thoughts: A Personal Reflection
For as long as I can remember—since I was 16 or even earlier—chronic suicidal thoughts have been an unrelenting presence in my life. They’re not
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2024-11-20
Database Superhero’s Blog
MVP No more, But It’s OK
Embracing Limitations: Finding Strength and Purpose in Hard Times For four years, I was honored to receive the MVP award for my work in the
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2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-12)
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Presenting at PASS Summit 2023 – Atomic Habits
I’m excited to be presenting at PASS Summit 2023, not only because it is PASS Summit but because of the topic. I do a lot
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2023-08-11 (first published: 2023-07-26)
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Twenty Years as a Guardian ad Litem
Twenty years ago, I stood in a courtroom and took an oath for a volunteer job I had no idea I would fall so much
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2023-06-30 (first published: 2023-06-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday #163 – Career Advice I received
It’s time for our monthly blog party and thanks to Gethyn Ellis ( t | b) for hosting this month. Gethyn asks us for the best Career
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2023-07-07 (first published: 2023-06-21)
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Using Azure Automation and Runbooks to Run Azure SQL Database Maintenance Tasks
I’ve been using Azure SQL Database for quite some while and have set up it in many various ways to run Ola’s Index Optimize and
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2023-06-26 (first published: 2023-06-06)
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WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take
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2023-03-29 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB
EightKB is a wonderfully ran conference by my friends Mark Wilkinson (T | B), Anthony Nocentino (T | B), Andrew Pruski (T | B), and
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2023-03-22 (first published: 2023-03-14)
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Script to Install the Tools I Use on My Jumpbox
I wrote a blog post a few months ago about the tools I use on my jumpbox you can read here. Since then, I have
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2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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Impact of Eliminating Implicit Conversions in JDBC Driver
Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop
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2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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Getting The Database Name
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Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers