Daily Coping 25 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to connect with someone from a different generation. This tip makes me feel old. When I see “different generation” I used to think of someone...
2022-11-25
12 reads
Snowflake Classic UI vs Snowsight
This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight – If anyone does want my feedback on what I like and don’t like about...
2022-11-25
269 reads
How to Install Integration Services 2022
The title of this blog post is a bit misleading, because what we actually want to do is to install the SSIS development functionality in Visual Studio 2022. SSAS...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-25)
961 reads
Daily Coping 24 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to try a new way to practice self-care and be kind to yourself. One of the things that I learned to do better during the...
2022-11-24
8 reads
Creating a Unity Catalog in Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog in Databricks provides a single place to create and manage data access policies that apply across all workspaces and users in an organization. It also provides a...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
253 reads
Daily Coping 23 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to build new ideas by thinking “Yes, and what if…”. I tend to look for the holes, problems, limitations, and downside of various proposals. I’ve...
2022-11-23
10 reads
Read data from Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pools with Azure Data Factory
We have some data we can query using the serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. For this blog post, I’m querying data that is stored in Azure Cosmos...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-23)
259 reads
Granting read access to SQL Server services with Just Enough Administration
We’ve all been there as DBAs…people requesting access to the servers that we look after to be able to view certain things. I’ve always got, well, twitchy with giving...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
363 reads
My SQL Server Encryption book has just been published!
It’s been a long journey, but I got the email from Apress yesterday to say that my book “Pro Encryption is SQL Server 2022” has now been published. You...
2022-12-05 (first published: 2022-11-23)
243 reads
Daily Coping 22 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something playful outdoors. Easy. Skiing today. First day of the season. I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server...
2022-11-22
22 reads
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