Yet another newsletter
I’ve been thinking about starting a newsletter for a while now. I want to focus on summaries and what stood out for me from among the many cool talks...
2023-08-30 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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Decrypting Stored Procedures The Cumbersome Way
I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to...
2023-09-04 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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Finding a History of Database Snapshots, Taken and Restored
This is a question that’s come up twice this morning, firstly where can we find a history of database snapshots and secondly where can we find a history of...
2023-08-30 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Basic Copy-Item cmdletIf you have used some PowerShell, you are probably familiar with Copy-Item...
2023-08-12
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Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Basic Copy-Item cmdletIf you have used some PowerShell, you are probably familiar with Copy-Item...
2023-08-13 (first published: 2023-08-12)
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Friday Flyway Tips: Searching Migrations
When a Flyway Desktop (FWD) project (or Flyway project) has been around for a long time, there can be a lot of migration scripts. That can be a pain...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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How to Create a Time Table in Power BI Using DAX
Lately, I’ve been having to create items in Power BI, that I haven’t had to do for a while, this week it was a Time table. Of course, I...
2023-08-28 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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A New Word: Aubadoir
aubadoir – n. the outworldly atmosphere just before 5 am, when the bleary melodrama of an extremely late night becomes awkwardly conflated with the industrious flourescence of a very...
2023-08-11
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Webinar: Unlock the Full Potential of Flyway to Achieve Automated Database Releases
On Aug 22, 2023, I’m co-hosting a webinar with Anderson Rangel, Redgate Solution Engineer in Brisbane. You can register here for the 11am AEST webinar. No, I’m not going...
2023-08-11
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The 2023 Redgate UK DevOps Roadshow
Years ago Redgate did some traveling events under the SQL in the City brand. These were a lot of fun and kind of amazing. One of the longer tours...
2023-08-10
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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