Blogging for the Tech Professional at Denver Dev Days
For those that attended my talk at Denver Dev Days, here are the slides: BloggingFortheTechPro.pptx A couple interesting questions that I need to add to the deck. What do...
2023-06-09
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The Voice of the DBA
Getting AI Written Unit Tests
As a part of my AI experiments, I decided to ask CoPilot to write some unit tests. Here is what happened. The Prompt To get started, you enter a...
2023-06-09
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A New Word: Slipfast
slipfast adj. longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part in it –...
2023-06-09
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ChatGpt Experiments–Getting Documentation
I get asked questions by salespeople all the time. Usually this is because a customer is struggling and I try to educate the salesperson as well as give them...
2023-06-23 (first published: 2023-06-02)
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A New Word: Jouska
jouska – a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head – a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic heart-to-heart – which serves as a kind...
2023-06-02
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Summit Launch Pricing Ends June 7
The PASS Data Community Summit is back in Seattle this November, the 14-17, 2023. It’s in person only, and if you can come, you should register today. Launch pricing...
2023-06-01
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Flyway with Multiple Folders
A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-05-31)
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Migrating from EverNote to Joplin
Recently I got a message that my Evernote subscription was going up. It’s been a $3 a month service, but moving to $4 for me. From USD$35 to USD$50...
2023-05-30
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Using Data Masker on Chinese Surnames
A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was interesting, so decided to test this out. This is a short post on using SQL...
2023-06-16 (first published: 2023-05-26)
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A New Word: Looseleft
looseleft – the feeling of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve gotten to know so...
2023-05-26
288 reads
Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
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