T-SQL Tuesday #166: Wrap-up
Once more, my apologies for being late on getting the T-SQL Tuesday announcement out. I have no excuse. However, our extended event on Extended Events (yes, I’m the third...
2023-09-15
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A New Word: Justing
justing – n. the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all your problems – if only you had the right haircut, if only you found...
2023-09-15
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Making Extended Events a bit more usable : T-SQL Tuesday #166
Running a bit late this month for T-SQL Tuesday (it’s not exactly Tuesday is it!) but that’s Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) ... Continue reading
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
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About 5 Minutes with Microsoft Fabric
Introducing the Fabric 5 from Data on Wheels Microsoft Fabric went to public preview this past summer. There has been content created around using the various cool features that...
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
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T-SQL Tuesday #166: Why Not Extended Events?
With 165 T-SQL Tuesday events, two, just two, this one, T-SQL Tuesday #166, and another one back in 2018 or 2019 (I forget and I’m far too lazy to...
2023-09-14
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Creating Empty Repos in Azure DevOps–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure DevOps. They got a conflict, which I’ll show and then get you started with an...
2023-09-13
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Extended Events and I (T-SQL Tuesday #166)
Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Grant Fritchey (t|b), aka the Scary DBA, about Extended Events (XEs).
If you look at the Tags section of my blog, you can see that...
2023-10-06 (first published: 2023-09-13)
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Restarting What’s Important
I’m currently in Enterprise Architecture in my organization and as a result, I blogged earlier about putting up study notes with regards to preparing for the two TOGAF (The...
2023-09-13
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Webinar: The Cloud, the Future, and Bob Ward at the Summit
I’m doing a webinar next week with Bob Ward, a principal architect for Microsoft working on Azure and SQL Server. I’ve had the chance to work with Bob quite...
2023-09-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #166: Extended Events
When I was put on the list to host September’s T-SQL Tuesday, well, I forgot to put it in my calendar. So I’m late (and in the doghouse with...
2023-09-11
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