Flyway Desktop PoC–Adding a Shadow and Baseline Script
In the last post, I created a baseline marker for Flyway in each database. This set the version in the dev and QA databases to v1. However, I also...
2023-04-12
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The Voice of the DBA
Creating a Simple Graph in RedisGraph
I delivered a session on graph databases, and in it I used RedisGraph to show how you can work with graph data on that platform. This blog shows a...
2023-04-10
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Dropping Career Goals for Q2
I set goals at the beginning of 2023 for Q1. I didn’t do well, as my evaluation earlier this week has a D for my efforts. I’m re-evaluating things,...
2023-04-07
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WIT Women Speakers Survey
There is a survey from the WIT group for female speakers. If you are a woman and speak in front of groups, or used to, please fill it out....
2023-04-05
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PASS Data Community Summit 2023 Registration is Open
You can register today for the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit. This year the event is in Seattle, Nov 14-17, and in-person only. The event was a lot of...
2023-04-21 (first published: 2023-04-05)
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Goal Progress for March 2023
The grade for March is also D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. In fact, I find myself not motivated to work...
2023-04-03
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Autonomous Driving Around London
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around London. I’ve been to London dozens of times, ridden and cabs and Ubers, and even...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-31)
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Daily Coping 24 Mar 2023–The Final Tip
Today’s coping tip is to discover the joy in the simple things in life. This is the last coping tip for now. It’s been 3 years, and I hope...
2023-03-24
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Experimenting with RedisGraph on Docker and Windows
I have been experimenting a bit with graph databases, trying to learn more about them. One of the platforms I wanted to experiment with was RedisGraph. This post looks...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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Resources for Adding Graph Structures to Your Database at VS Live
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at VS Live Las Vegas 2023 on graph databases. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have questions, please feel free...
2023-03-23
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Blogs
Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition
In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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Why Data Modelling Still Matters - More Than Ever
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hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers