Goal Progress for Jan 2023
The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. I set goals at the beginning of the year,...
2023-02-01
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Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Introducing… Data On Rails!
Data On Rails is a Data On Wheels project designed to give a platform for up and coming data professionals in the data community. This project is the brainchild...
2023-02-01
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Daily Coping 1 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down. This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out...
2023-02-01
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Tempdb Performance Improvements in SQL Server 2022 are Dramatic
Tempdb is always a topic for me whether it’s in my sessions or blogs I have written. However, I’ve never been so excited about it then I am when...
2023-02-13 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Recovering a TDE Database Without the Certificate
If you don’t have the backups of the certificate and private key from the old server, as well as the password used to encrypt the private key backup then...
2023-02-01
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Daily Coping 31 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal. One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with...
2023-01-31
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-23-2022
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while since I had time to sit down and write out a Monday re-capThis past week was my birthday week. With all the...
2023-01-31
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CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-31)
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Presenting On Basics Is Difficult
Over the last year, at work and after work, I’ve been teaching myself a lot of brand new technologies. As such, I’m reliant on others to have put together...
2023-01-30
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
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....
Forums
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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