Level Up!
Great news! I was accepted this weekend to speak at SQLSaturday Los Angeles! This officially counts as a level up for me for my deadlock resolution quest. The event...
2020-02-25
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Renewed as a Friend of Red Gate
I recently received the news that I’ve been renewed as a Friend of Red Gate. I’ve been a big fan of Red Gate since the days when SQL Compare...
2020-02-25
19 reads
Does dbatools Have a Function for That?
dbatools has a lot of functions. A lot. Over 550. There is a great command index on the website, and the documentation gets updated every time a new version...
2020-02-25
19 reads
Redgate Software Needs You!
I’ve been very blessed to be able to work for Redgate Software. We’ve done some amazing stuff over the years. We’re going to be doing even more amazing stuff...
2020-02-24
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Extended Events: Database Auditing
Extended Events can do things that simply are not possible with Profiler and another example comes from the stack of audit events that exist only in Extended Events. One...
2020-02-24
60 reads
Speaking for Omaha Azure User Group Wednesday
This Wednesday, February 26th, I will be presenting a new session entitled “All Things SQL in the Microsoft Cloud” for the Omaha Azure Users Group, starting at 6pm Central...
2020-02-24
11 reads
Stop #AzureDataStudio from opening a connection screen on startup
When I’m working with a tool I like a clean startup. And by that I mean don’t automatically open anything. ... Continue reading
2020-03-03 (first published: 2020-02-24)
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SheLeadsTech Webinar: Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity
ISACA has a SheLeadsTech webinar for tomorrow, February 25, 2020 titled Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity. Registration Link: https://www.isaca.org/education/online-events/lms_w022520 If you can’t make the talk, ISACA archives all webinars...
2020-02-24
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Use Jupyter Notebooks to Help People on StackOverFlow
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing my previous blog post! I was talking with my...
2020-02-22
50 reads
.NET PowerShell Notebooks – Using Pester
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions. .NET Notebooks are Jupyter Notebooks that use .NET core to enable C#,...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-22)
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
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jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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