A New Word: Ghough
ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...
2023-09-29
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T-SQL Tuesday: Encryption and Data Protection
I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any doubt that’s for October 2023, I’m posting this invitation a little early as I got...
2023-09-29
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Parameterize your Databricks notebooks with widgets
Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call the same process for different values, you can create widgets to allow you to pass...
2023-10-13 (first published: 2023-09-28)
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FDD 2023 – Session Materials
You can find the slides for my session at Future Data Driven summit at GitHub. It was really nice presenting (virtually). If you have any questions, let me know!
The...
2023-09-27
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Quick Filtering in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I often do, but I thought this was great. A Long List This is the list...
2023-10-06 (first published: 2023-09-27)
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Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission
Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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SQL Saturday Denver 2023–VCS Primer for the Database slides
My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what version control is, and the basics of Git. Not too many questions, but if you...
2023-09-25
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Future Data Driven 2023 is This Week
The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on Wednesday, September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. The event has a great schedule (scroll...
2023-09-25
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Opening the SQL Prompt Command Palette
A few years ago SQL Prompt added a command palette to let you search the commands available. This is similar to the same concept in Visual Studio Code, ADS,...
2023-09-25
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2
The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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Blogs
Speeding Up Patching – Beyond Patch Delivery
By Brian Kelley
I wear many hats in technology, and one of those is as a (cyber)security...
Monday Monitor Tips: Query Recommendations
By Steve Jones
We keep adding stuff to Redgate Monitor, and it’s easy to miss some of...
A Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
By Brian Kelley
The following came across my YouTube feed today. It’s an interview with General James...
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