Setting up my new workstation with some Chocolatey goodness.
As you might be aware I started a new job last week. Which means a new workstation and installing lots ... Continue reading
2022-11-11
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Daily Coping Tip 11 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make a list of new things you want to do before the end of the year. Hmm, definitely some things to do, but what’s...
2022-11-11
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Cloning in Snowflake
Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...
2022-11-11
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I'm speaking at PASS Data Community Summit 2022
Looking forward to speaking in Seattle at next week's PASS Data Community Summit by Redgate. I'll be speaking both as a representative of my role on the Microsoft Database...
2022-11-11
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Thursday is #sqlkilt Day
At the PASS Data Community Summit, Thursday is the day when the Women in Technology (WIT) luncheon takes place. This is an event I’ve come to enjoy as I...
2022-11-10
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Attending and presenting at conferences
I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
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Daily Coping 10 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to respond to a difficult situation in a different way. There are plenty of difficult situations I find myself in, some of which create lots...
2022-11-10
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Webinar: Enhancing Your ETL Pipelines with Custom Data Cleansing and Matching
At Tuesday the 13th of December, I give a webinar about Unison, a self-service online data quality tool of Melissa Data. This is a 30-minute webinar, sponsored by Melissa...
2022-11-10
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Select All in a Power BI Slicer–#SQLNewBlogger
One of the things I’ve been working on this year is a Power BI report for the kids I coaco in volleyball. As a part of this, I want...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-09)
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Daily Coping 9 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time for a friend and have a coffee, meal, or just spend time. It’s been a busy few months for me. Since Sept...
2022-11-09
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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
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
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...
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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