I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things discovered in our vulnerability assessments. Changing things via PowerShell I wanted to be cautious with...
2025-06-04 (first published: 2025-05-16)
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Regarding managing databases in the cloud, security should never be an afterthought. That’s where Azure Vulnerability Assessments, officially named Microsoft Defender, come in—they help you spot weak spots in...
2025-05-26 (first published: 2025-05-07)
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pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database as an extension. It allows you to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly from your database, similar...
2025-05-19 (first published: 2025-04-24)
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This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by...
2025-04-28 (first published: 2025-04-11)
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I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot of SQL, but for the SQL I do write, I have SQLFluff to help me...
2025-03-18
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This may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m doing it to be super cautious, I figured I would blog about it. We migrated...
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-14)
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Thank you to Deborah Melkin for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month! I’ve always considered mentoring and sponsorship very structured. Now, I wonder if they’re also small things we do...
2025-03-24 (first published: 2025-03-11)
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This is more complicated than using the Azure Migration method, but because it’s maxed out on resources for the last week in the east regions (and possibly central), and...
2025-02-10 (first published: 2025-02-09)
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I’ve covered how to create Elastic Jobs in the portal (this one is important to read if you aren’t familiar with elastic jobs already), with Terraform, and with Bicep....
2025-02-09 (first published: 2025-02-07)
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You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles are granted to it. I had to go fishing to find all the grants to...
2025-02-12 (first published: 2025-01-27)
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By Brian Kelley
I will be back in Seattle this year attending the 2025 PASS Data Community...
By Steve Jones
Another of our values is this: Motivation isn’t about carrots and sticks. Constant oversight...
By Steve Jones
Today is my last day of work for six weeks. I start my sabbatical...
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Given a record mapping table: Id Initial Updated 1 1 2 2 3 4...
Hi i recently exported a number of "to be purged resultsets " to .tsv's. ...
In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.OrderHeader ADD ModifiedStamp DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOI decide I need to add auditing to another table and run this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tracker ADD Created DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOWhat happens with these statements? See possible answers