A New Word: 1202
1202– n. the tipping point when your brain becomes so overwhelmed with tasks you need to do, you feel too guilty to put anything off until later, prioritizing every...
2024-03-29
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The Voice of the DBA
The Basics of TRY CATCH Blocks–#SQLNewBlogger
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This is a short post that looks at how you can start adding TRY.. CATCH blocks...
2024-04-22 (first published: 2024-03-27)
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Apr 9 Webinar: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise
UPDATE: This moved to Apr 9 Join me Tuesday, Apr 9 for a webinar, 10:00am CDT. You can register here and then come watch live with questions or get...
2024-04-05 (first published: 2024-03-26)
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Book Review: 100 SQL Server Mistakes
I was approached by Manning Publications and asked to review 100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. They gave me a free copy of the book (and...
2024-04-19 (first published: 2024-03-25)
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The PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Call for Speakers
The PASS Data Community Summit call for speakers and volunteers is open. You have until April 10 to submit something, and you can do that here: Data Community Summit...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-22)
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A New Word: Rubatosis
rubatosis– n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, as...
2024-03-22
314 reads
SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table
I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?
At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-18)
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Friday Flyway Tips – Inserting Column in the Middle of a Table
I had a customer question whether Flyway Desktop (FWD) would cause problems if developers were adding columns into the middle of tables. It’s a valid concern, and this post...
2024-03-22 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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A New Word: Malotype
malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...
2024-03-15
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Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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A Common Split
What happens when I run this code:
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