KQL Series – understanding KQL Queries (Part 1)
In my pervious post I wrote about KQL queries that we will write – we also could use some free some samples that Microsoft put up for us to...
2022-03-31
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The Hybrid DBA's Blog
KQL Series – what is Kusto Query Language?
This blog post will detail what KQL is all about… KQL was developed to take advantage of the power of the cloud through clustering and compute. Using this capability,...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – why is it called Kusto Query Language?
I use KQL on an hourly basis…. But for a query language – why call it Kusto..? Where is a funny tidbit of information: You have probably heard something...
2022-03-31
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Kusto Query Language – a series
This blog post is about a new query language that I have learnt and I really think you need to learn it too. Especially if you are doing ANYTHING...
2022-03-31
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Azure Platform Series – renaming your YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. I had a repo called InfrastructureAsCode for a client. I have been transitioning them to use YAML for their...
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Azure Platform Series: cloudshell code -your (brilliant) online editor
This post is about code which is an online editor you can use with cloudshell. I live in the Azure platform all day (almost) every day. What this means...
2021-02-05 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Bash: ^^}: bad substitution – upgrade your Bash version (macOS)
This blog post is about a situation where you are capitalising an argument in bash and you get the following error: bash: ${state^^}: bad substitution In this example I...
2021-01-24
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Azure Platform Series “You have exceeded the maximum amount of scale changes within the past hour”
This blog post relates to where you might be doing scale operations of your app services or VMs in Azure and get the following error after doing quite a...
2021-02-01 (first published: 2021-01-23)
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Bash: “command not found” in IF statement
This blog post is about a situation where writing an IF THEN ELSE statement with variables fails with something like ./scalePREPROD.sh: line 26: [[1: command not found This was...
2021-01-23
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Open Letter to the PASS Membership,
When I was appointed to serve as a Director at Large for the PASS Organization a year ago, it was with great passion, excitement and enthusiasm. I had some...
2020-12-08
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers