Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful...

Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest...

T-SQL Tuesday Participation Over the Years

I have personally participated in quite a large number of these TSQL Tuesday events - despite not being every single one. This is a roundup of my personal participation...

T-SQL Tuesday Participation Over the Years

Loads of TSQL Tuesdays

Years ago the TSQL Tuesday party was started by Adam Machanic (b|t). The premise of the monthly event...

Infrastructure matters, even in the Cloud

I am still amused by terminology in the Information Technology field. Words like “Kubernetes,” “containers,” and the BASIC keywords PEEK...

Identity in a SELECT

Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...

Static Data Masking (SSMS 18.0 Preview)

Ever need to have a test database on hand that you can allow others to query “real like” data without...

SQL Server Backup To Azure Storage

Once again I would like to share with you an article I wrote about backing up (and restoring) a SQL...

MongoDB – Basic Commands

We discussed about MongoDb installation and startup. I highly recommend to go though the training session which will provide a detail...

SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup

Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set...