A SQL Compare Picklist
Recently a customer was trying to sync up production and development. They’d somewhat lost control of both environments and wanted to build a plan of how to sync them....
2022-12-30 (first published: 2022-12-19)
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Daily Coping 16 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to send a gift to someone new. I have been sending gifts to my daughter at college every month or so, but I decided I...
2022-12-16
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How to Specify the Format of the Request Body of an Azure Function
This is a bit of a niche blog post, because you don’t actually need this to make your Azure Function work :). When you create a new HTTP-triggered Azure...
2023-01-02 (first published: 2022-12-16)
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My presentation recordings of data architectures
Over the years I have presented a ton (see the list), and some of those presentations were recorded. I had put some of them on my YouTube channel, but...
2022-12-15
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Daily Coping 15 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to support a charity or cause you care about. My big causes are food, housing, and education for those that are struggling. I like to...
2022-12-15
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Clickable SVG images in Power BI using the HTML Content custom visual
People have done creative things with SVG measures in Power BI, ranging from KPI cards to infographics to fun games. For my latest Workout Wednesday challenge, I used SVG...
2022-12-28 (first published: 2022-12-15)
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Recommended Approach to Encryption in SQL Server
We looked earlier at the various places our data lives – on disk, in memory, in-transit across the network. A good strategy will protect all of these locations –...
2022-12-28 (first published: 2022-12-14)
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Daily Coping 14 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to offer to help someone who is facing difficulties now. I’ve been very lucky in life. I find that success often has me associating with...
2022-12-14
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Effectively Integrating FHIR Data from Azure Health Services
This blog is intended to be a follow up from the SQL Saturday 2022 in Oregon & SW Washington. In that session I presented an introduction to FHIR and...
2022-12-21 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #157–The End of Year
It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. I’ve been on holiday for a week, so this is a quick post for T-SQL Tuesday. This month is hosted...
2022-12-23 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Invitation: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #201 invitation. Do temp tables help performance or hurt it? I...
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
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Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
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Finding Bad Queries
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