On 14 February 2023, Microsoft released updates for all supported versions of SQL Server in the form of a General Distribution Release (GDR). A GDR is an out-of-band update...
2023-02-24 (first published: 2023-02-15)
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Today’s coping tip is to look for good in others, particularly when you feel frustrated. We all deal with conflicts with others throughout out lives. How we handle those...
2023-02-15
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It was a lot of fun to speak at the Louisville Data Technology Group in February. Sheila and I presented on Jupyter notebooks in Azure Data Studio. The session...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-14)
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Today’s coping tip is to thank someone and tell them how they made a difference for you. I’ve had a lot of success in my life, as well as...
2023-02-14
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I’m excited to announce I’ve been selected again as a speaker for Techorama 2023. Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-focused events in the European mainland, and it’s always...
2023-02-14
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Hello Dear Reader! We had a great last week on Tales from the Field. This weekend was also a really nice one. On Saturday a group of friends gathered...
2023-02-13
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In my previous post, I set up the Flyway Desktop projects for SQL Server and PostgreSQL. I also added a table to each platform for development. In this post,...
2023-02-24 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Today’s coping tip is to show an active interest by asking questions when talking to others. I listen more and more these days. I’m trying to input less and...
2023-02-13
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The question came up that someone wanted to monitor the queries impacting tempdb using Extended Events. Initially, I was pretty sure that there was no real way to do...
2023-02-13
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When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...
2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
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I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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