Protesting government web surveillance: Feb 11 Blackout
We at the MidnightDBA compound* believe firmly in the right to privacy, and so have watched with dismay over the...
2014-01-13
452 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Applied SQL: Find and replace using regular expressions in SSMS
Regular expressions are searches on steroids, the wildcats of the wildcard world*. Even if you never ever write CLR, regex...
2014-01-10
1,244 reads
Clarity in T-SQL: Adjoining Socks
One of my children is very literal, a true pedantic. “Is there any homework you need to do?” “No.” “Really?...
2014-01-04
584 reads
Parameterization – A quick note on a CSS SQL article
I just finished reading an excellent CSS article, How Simple Parameterization works, which is well written and well worth a...
2013-12-18
537 reads
Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes
John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish...
2013-12-16
940 reads
What a DBA wants for Christmas
In the first few years of ITBookworm.com, we made sure to make up holiday lists of the most awesome gadgets...
2013-12-12
666 reads
Be a Brilliant DBA
John Sanson (b|t) recently asked a bunch of us, “If you could give a DBA just one piece of advice,...
2013-12-10
518 reads
#TribalAwards with RedGate!
You know what? You’re doing a good job. You’re reading blogs, and that’s generally the sign of a person wanting...
2013-12-09
569 reads
It sure would be grand to have interesting interviews
Coincidentally, in a week of debate and thinking and writing on IT interviews and candidates, XKCD has gifted us with...
2013-11-22
538 reads
What should a candidate know about your company?
I had a great comment (Ryan McCauley’s) on yesterday’s post that led to a great conversation on Twitter. The comment mentioned...
2013-11-27 (first published: 2013-11-19)
2,065 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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