New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan
In my first post, I reference that by the end of your first 30 days you should have a 90-day plan of things to tackle at your job and...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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Database Superhero’s Blog
New Database Job – Understand What You Have
In my previous post, I expounded on my first 30 days I had at four jobs in the last four years. and how to setup your jobs box. I...
2022-07-05
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Using Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 2
Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out first. There are many ways to this. I start with using the Cfs secret page...
2022-07-01
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Speaker diversity
Recently PASS Data Community Summit sessions were selected and the wounds were opened on Twitter around speaker diversity in the community. I heard from several people via my DMs...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-30)
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Tools I Use on My Jump Box
Having recently taken a new job and introducing a number of new tools to my new coworker I thought I’d share how I setup my jump box to and...
2022-06-28
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The First 30 Days at a New Database Job
Over the last four years, ok it seems longer than that, I’ve started four jobs. A couple just weren’t good fits. One I was at for three years. I...
2022-07-11 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday 151: T-SQL Coding Standards
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Mala Mahadevan (b | t) has invited us to blog about our T-SQL coding standards. I...
2022-06-14
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Who is Updating That Table? – SQL Audit
I had a problem at work recently where a record was getting updated, and no one knew where or what was updating the record. Our team discussed the best...
2022-06-14
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Why You Should Run Your SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure
SQL Server can run in any Virtual Machine that has the appropriate operating system (yes, I said that because I have some hope, that we will one day learn...
2022-06-20 (first published: 2022-06-03)
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Setting Up Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 1 – Create an Event
I jumped on the bandwagon early so to speak to use the user group feature of Sessionize and since then I’ve walked at least five user groups through setting...
2022-05-31
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Blogs
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
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As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
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By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers