A New Word: Exulansis
exulansis – n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it – whether through envy or pity or...
2023-07-14
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The Voice of the DBA
Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group
Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Assigning a Default Schema to a New User–#SQLNewBlogger
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. Since this...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-12)
284 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #164: Code that makes you feel
The invitation this month is from Erik Darling, and it’s a neat one. I like this thought, asking us to find code that impressed us or made us feel...
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
448 reads
Volunteering at Work: Teaching Others
I give a few talks on career topics, and one of these is Branding Yourself for a Dream Job. In the talk, I sometimes tell a story in the...
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-10)
196 reads
Talking about the New Open-Source SQLCMD on Data Exposed
I was on the Data Exposed: MVP Edition show recently, talking about SQLCMD. I’ve written a few articles on the topics as well, and a blog post about setting...
2023-07-05
39 reads
A New Word: Licotic
licotic – adj. anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing – a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a TV show they’re lucky enough to...
2023-06-30
36 reads
Typing Strange Characters–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve had to type a few non-English characters lately, and this blog talks about how to do this. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as...
2023-06-28
437 reads
The Four Different Types of Flyway Files
This is documented, somewhat, but I wanted to put this down for myself, as the I don’t love the docs and they are hard to sort through. Flyway is...
2023-07-07 (first published: 2023-06-26)
140 reads
A New Word: Volander
volander: n. the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window, able to catch a glimpse of far-flung places you’d never see in person, free...
2023-06-23
104 reads
Blogs
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
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SQL Server Certificates
Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?
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