I had a customer that was looking to document a restore that had occurred on one of their systems and didn’t see it. They had concerns about SQL Server...
2024-07-03
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DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are passionate about or use for our jobs. For example, I specialized in Microsoft business intelligence,...
2024-07-02
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After a data migration, we needed to decommission the old Azure SQL DBs, but we wanted to keep a copy in case we needed anything later. Enter exporting an...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-07-02)
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Have you heard the news about the new Power BI Project files? Okay, maybe not news anymore since it was announced over a year ago. Just in case you...
2024-07-02 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...
2024-07-01
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It’s a great question. Let’s say you want to capture stored procedure completions. But, you only want to capture them between 3AM and 4AM. Can you do it? Output...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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I got this in an email about a week ago from the PASS Data Community Summit. There’s more to it, but essentially I submitted 3 talks (2 on deployments,...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-06-28)
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addleworth – adj. unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for...
2024-06-28
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Hey all! Quick one here. Tracy Boggiano, awesome person that she is, has put together an interesting collection of data over on GitHub. It’s titled DBA Resources, but it...
2024-07-12 (first published: 2024-06-27)
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In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...
2024-06-27
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
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mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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