Using Flyway with Feature Flags
There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to...
2024-05-22
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The Voice of the DBA
Writing Parquet Files – #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday, possibly querying it, and perhaps building a data warehouse of sorts. The modern view of data warehousing seems...
2024-06-14 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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A New Word: Flichtish
flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself – only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent thread, a...
2024-05-17
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The Ireland and UK DevOps Roadshow
We’re taking the roadshow across the water. Hope the plane makes it. The Redgate DevOps Roadshow comes to Ireland and the Northern UK in June. We’ll be in these...
2024-05-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #174 – My Favorite Interview Question
This month is a great topic to me. I think growing and improving your career is a skill that most of us could improve, especially in our younger years....
2024-06-07 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Reading JSON Data with Python
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday. As a start, I needed to read some of the archive data I have in Python. This post...
2024-05-24 (first published: 2024-05-12)
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A New Word: ioia
ioia – n.the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter – checking the signal strength of their compatibility, a measure of their trustworthiness. I...
2024-05-10
37 reads
Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event, a volleyball tournament, and a wedding. Each time was a lot of fun and I...
2024-05-08
67 reads
A New Word: mcfeely
mcfeely – adj. inexplicably moved by predictable and well-worn sentiments, even if they are trite or obvious or being broadcast blindly to the masses. I get mcfeely all the...
2024-05-03
16 reads
Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the job, but the other part is removing local branches. This post looks at one way...
2024-05-17 (first published: 2024-05-01)
350 reads
Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
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Converting Money
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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
Question of the Day
Converting Money
Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?
DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY; SET @YenAmount = ¥1500; SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;See possible answers