Using Flyway with Feature Flags
There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to...
2024-05-22
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Microsoft Build event announcements on Fabric
There were a number of Microsoft Fabric announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I wanted to blog about. Everything announced at Build can be found in the Microsoft Build 2024 Book of...
2024-06-12 (first published: 2024-05-22)
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6 Can’t-Miss Basic SQL Courses to Learn in 2024: Your Fast Track to Data Mastery
Ready to dive into the world of SQL? Whether you're dreaming of a lucrative data career or just want a new skill under your belt, learning SQL is a...
2024-05-21
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Data-driven vs. Data-informed: Let’s Acknowledge the Truth
This comic was retweeted into my timeline on Twitter (I refuse to call it X). Here’s the dialog from the comic, for those that don’t want to click through...
2024-05-20
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Data-driven vs. Data-informed: Let’s Acknowledge the Truth
This comic was retweeted into my timeline on Twitter (I refuse to call it X). Here’s the dialog from the comic, for those that don’t want to click through...
2024-06-10 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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Writing Parquet Files – #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday, possibly querying it, and perhaps building a data warehouse of sorts. The modern view of data warehousing seems...
2024-06-14 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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A word about IT/cybersecurity and mental health
Just as it's important to take care of our physical health (and I'm guilty of neglecting that), it is important to take care of our mental health, too. Also,...
2024-06-10 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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Are ABORT_AFTER_WAIT's victims logged?
In SQL Server, using the KILL command to terminate a session results in an entry being logged in the error log.
This raises the question: Does the ALTER INDEX REBUILD...
2024-06-05 (first published: 2024-05-18)
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Part 2: The Modern Azure Data Warehouse – ADF and ADLS
In today’s data-driven world, having the right tools to manage and process large datasets is crucial. That’s where Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) and Azure Data Factory (ADF) come...
2024-06-05 (first published: 2024-05-17)
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A New Word: Flichtish
flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself – only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent thread, a...
2024-05-17
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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