Future Data Driven is Coming Sept 27 for FREE
The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. I have been honored to speak at this...
2023-09-07
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Running Flyway from PowerShell–A Gotcha
I ran across an interesting gotcha while trying to run a Flyway command from PowerShell. Specifically, the snapshot command and providing a parameter that is the snapshot.filename parameter. Someone...
2023-09-06
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The PASS Data Community Summit On Guy in a Cube
I’ve known Adam and Patrick for a long time and I’m thrilled with the content they produce on their Guy in a Cube show. It’s a great resource for...
2023-09-04
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Friday Flyway Tips: Visualizing Undo Scripts
One nice thing with Flyway Enterprise is that it will automatically generate the undo scripts for migration scripts. However, it used to be that finding these and seeing the...
2023-09-01
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A New Word: Merrenness
merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...
2023-09-01
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Finding Analogies with AI
I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the...
2023-08-31
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Restore with Standby–#SQLNewBlogger
A customer had a question about restoring with standby, so I wrote a quick post to explain how this works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully...
2023-08-30
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Chicago Database DevOps in a Day Workshop
I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of...
2023-08-29
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Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query
One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Friday Flyway Tips: More Config Options
Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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