What is Azure SQL Database Serverless?
What is Azure SQL Database Serverless? When I hear the term serverless my mind gets confused. How can a database exist without a server? Azure is a cloud platform,...
2020-07-01
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What is Azure SQL Database Serverless?
What is Azure SQL Database Serverless? When I hear the term serverless my mind gets confused. How can a database exist without a server? Azure is a cloud platform,...
2020-07-01
366 reads
Daily Coping 1 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-01
11 reads
Thoughts As Pride Month 2020 Comes to a Close
I’ve begun working on developing a couple of small habits this month, thanks largely to Andy Mallon‘s helpful advocacy. Becoming more consistent in sharing my pronouns My pronouns are...
2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-30)
301 reads
Daily Coping 30 Jun 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-30
28 reads
The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 1]
Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
696 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! ...
2020-06-30
15 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! This course will...
2020-06-30
10 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/maintaining-monitoring-troubleshooting-kubernetes/! This course will...
2020-06-30
40 reads
Measuring Well Being
I need to write something more on this, but it struck me that this is something I wish previous employers had done, anonymously, and reported results back to others....
2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-29)
400 reads
Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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