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 Rohit Garg
How U.S.-India Tariff Disputes Could Ripple Through the Indian IT Sector Although the newly...
By Rohit Garg
Why Microsoft Azure Certifications Are Beneficial for Your Career 
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By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
We're currently on SQL 2019 and will likely be looking to migrate to a...
Hello, I have a SQL Server with an AlwaysOn configuration consisting of three replicas...
Anyone got any good advice for performance tuning CDC on a Managed Instance? We...
In a trigger, I can use UPDATE() or UPDATED_COLUMNS() to determine which columns were changed. For these functions, which one accepts a column name as a parameter?
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