Daily Coping 10 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to send a message to let someone know you’re thinking of them. I reached out a friend the other day, someone I know from the...
2023-02-10
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New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to write down your hopes or plans for the future. Hopes are vague, and plans are easier, so here are some plans: Plan a trip...
2023-02-09
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RMOUG Training Days in Denver
Next week I’m heading to the Lowry Conference Center in Denver for the RMOUG Training Days. The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group has put this on for years, and...
2023-02-07
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Daily Coping 7 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to go to bed in good time and allow yourself to recharge. I need this reminder. Lately I’ve struggled to sleep well, through the night,...
2023-02-07
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-31-2023
Hello Dear Reader! After a weekend with a lot of activities, it was a down week here at Casa Balls. Woke up and walked a lot. I'm still not...
2023-02-06
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Creating a Flyway Desktop Shadow Database in PostgreSQL
In order to generate migrations, we need to configure Flyway to use a shadow database. This post looks at that process. This is part of a series of working...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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Query Store Data Cleanup
Microsoft supplies quite a few knobs to control how Query Store performs data cleanup. You can set your cleanup various ways, and, they interact. Let’s talk about how and...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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Daily Coping 6 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get back in contact with an old friend. This is something I don’t do too often, but I have done a few times. I’ve...
2023-02-06
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Rotating a Certificate Used by TDE
In terms of encryption, Key Rotation is the process of replacing your encryption keys on a periodic basis. This is considered good practice and is required by many security...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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