A New Word: mahpiohanzia
mahpiohanzia – n. the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your...
2023-08-25
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The Voice of the DBA
ADS Copilot Experiments with XML
I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
229 reads
Decrypting Stored Procedures with SQL Compare
I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to...
2023-08-21
252 reads
The DevOps Roadshow(s) from Redgate
I’m back from an office trip this week to Pasadena. I had the chance to go to the office, do some internal training for people, and spend time with...
2023-08-18
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Friday Flyway Tips: Copying the Migration Number
It’s a small thing, but copying the migration number can be a pain. However, we’ve made this easier in Flyway 6.5.4. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-18)
105 reads
A New Word: Rückkehrunruhe
rückkehrunruhe – n. the feeling of returning from an immersive trip only to notice if fading rapidly from your awareness, as if your brain had automatically assumed it was...
2023-08-18
286 reads
Adding Copilot to Azure Data Studio and a Few Experiments
As a part of a recent Data Exposed that I was on, there was an ADS update which mentioned Copilot being added. Since I’ve been experimented, I decided to...
2023-08-17
81 reads
Searching for People
Inside Redgate Software, someone posted a picture and was asking if anyone knew who the person was. In this case, there had been a conversation at an event, and...
2023-08-16
32 reads
Fill Out The State of the Database Landscape Survey and Maybe Win
If you’re like me, you sometimes wonder how different other environments are from the one I work in. Well, the ones I used to work in. These days I...
2023-08-15
7 reads
Decrypting Stored Procedures The Cumbersome Way
I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to...
2023-09-04 (first published: 2023-08-14)
1,627 reads
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In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
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I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
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The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
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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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