PASS Summit 2020 – My experience
This was the first year in 16 years for me that there has been a fall season without the PASS Summit to go to. Every year, during the fall,...
2020-11-25 (first published: 2020-11-15)
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Mala's Data Blog
T-SQL Tuesday 132: Coping with a pandemic
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my good friend and data platform MVP Taiob Ali. Taiob’s challenge is very relevant to current season – he asks to blog...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday 131: Data Analogies, or: Explain Databases Like I’m Five!
This month’s TSQL2sday is hosted by one of my favorite presenters, Rob Volk. His challenge for us is to use analogies and explain a database concept like you would...
2020-10-19 (first published: 2020-10-13)
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Azure SQL Championship
There is no doubt that this is a time when we all have to be extra aware and work towards keeping our skills aligned with market needs. During this...
2020-10-13 (first published: 2020-10-07)
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Being seen and why PASS helped
One of my colleagues/friends read my earlier blog post on the future of PASS and said he was not aware that being seen as a minority person was among...
2020-06-22
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PASS – Meanderings
As most people reading this would know…the PASS organization is in a state of crisis now following the decision to go virtual. We are in a place where we...
2020-07-03 (first published: 2020-06-20)
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Deleting packages from SSIS Catalog
I was fortunate to attend a training on SSIS by my good friend and SSIS expert Andy Leonard(b|t). We already use the tool for ETL purposes where I work...
2020-05-18 (first published: 2020-05-04)
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Learning Postgres:Installation
I had the opportunity of working on a project converting a postgres database to a sql server based one at work. I used this opportunity to learn more of...
2020-04-13 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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Telecommute Resources
This is a summary of potential resources for any tech person who is interested in working from home – temporarily or full time. It came about from a twitter...
2020-03-18 (first published: 2020-03-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday 123: Life Hacks to make your day easier
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jess Pomfret. Jess’s theme is ‘Life Hacks to make your day easier’. She talks of some things we do to make life...
2020-02-17 (first published: 2020-02-11)
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Blogs
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
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