Fighting Procrastination?
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg. In this video, he delves into why we procrastinate...
2026-10-30 (first published: 2026-10-27)
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Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg. In this video, he delves into why we procrastinate...
2026-10-30 (first published: 2026-10-27)
1,086 reads
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just a couple of weeks away. Amongst a bunch of admin type stuff, there was a...
2026-10-27
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Your AI is busy. But do you know what it's worth? Most companies can tell you how much AI they use. Few can say what it's worth. Here's how...
2026-11-02 (first published: 2026-10-26)
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I wear many hats in technology, and one of those is as a (cyber)security professional. Needless to say, the timeline around the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities has me interested. SecurityWeek has...
2026-11-04 (first published: 2026-10-26)
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We keep adding stuff to Redgate Monitor, and it’s easy to miss some of the improvements. Here’s one that’s been around quite awhile, but while discussing the product with...
2026-11-02 (first published: 2026-10-26)
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Founded in 2014 by three data enthusiasts, Joyful Craftsmen has grown into an international Data & AI company. Explore our journey, the principles behind our work, and the next...
2026-10-26
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The following came across my YouTube feed today. It’s an interview with General James Mattis, USMC, Retired, talking about lifelong learning, the expectations of learning in the Marine Corps,...
2026-10-28 (first published: 2026-10-23)
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“You don’t need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more focus.” – from Excellent Advice for Living Boy, I...
2026-10-30 (first published: 2026-10-23)
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I don’t currently manage Microsoft 365 Copilot in an enterprise environment, but it is one of those technologies that I want to understand better. As AI becomes part of...
2026-11-06 (first published: 2026-10-23)
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If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before you start: should you recreate the existing solution on the new platform, or use the...
2026-10-26 (first published: 2026-10-22)
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers