A New Word: Apolytus
apolytus– n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing your old problems like a reptile shedding its skin, already able to twist back around...
2024-04-19
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The Voice of the DBA
Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated a lot of branches. Even though I’m a solo developer, I decided to use branches,...
2024-04-19 (first published: 2024-04-17)
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Familiar Sights
Yesterday was a long day in London. I arrived late in the am, and as I was walking from the plane to the border check, I went down the...
2024-04-16
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A New Word: the Wends
the wends– n. the frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, which prompts you to try plugging in various through combinations to trigger anything...
2024-04-12
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Manually Updating Redgate Monitor/SQL Monitor Patch Info
This post looks at updating the patch information for SQL Monitor/Redgate Monitor without using the automated process. I have other posts on SQL Monitor as well. I heard from...
2024-04-10
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Bringing the Redgate Seminar to Brisbane
We’ve been on a Redgate tour this year, running lots of events to interest, educate, and inspire customers. We know that there are challenges in building and operating database...
2024-04-10
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #173–The AI Job Helper
This month I had a new host, Pinal Dave. I was surprised to see he hadn’t hosted, but I didn’t see him in the list. His invite is interesting,...
2024-04-09
14 reads
DevOps Book Recommendations
I’m out today, coaching in Salt Lake City. However, I’ve been thinking about a few books after discussions with various customers and attendees at a few events. I wanted...
2024-04-09 (first published: 2024-04-08)
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Slides from SQL Saturday SLC 2024 – Zero Downtime
Thanks to everyone that came to my presentation at SQL Saturday SLC 2024. This post has a few links for you: Code and repo: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx...
2024-04-06
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Webinar Apr 9: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise
On Tuesday I have a webinar with a Redgate sales engineer: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise. This will cover You can register here. In this...
2024-04-05
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Blogs
First Time Speaking with a Mask at an Event
By DataOnWheels
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...
A New Word: Apolytus
By Steve Jones
apolytus– n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing...
Tired of Tedious SQL Queries? AI Tools Can Automate The Boring Parts
If you've ever wrestled with complex SQL code, you know the drill. Hours spent...
Forums
Do you listen to music when you work?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Do you listen to music...
Slow update on temp table
I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...
Table Partitioning - remove null range
hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...
Question of the Day
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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