Daily Coping 3 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to ask other people about things they’ve enjoyed recently I asked the question on Twitter and on Facebook, looking for interesting responses from friends. The...
2023-02-03
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The Voice of the DBA
Daily Coping 2 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to challenge negative thoughts and look for the upside. I’m struggling with some negative thoughts outside of work. This year as I coach older girls,...
2023-02-02
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Goal Progress for Jan 2023
The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. I set goals at the beginning of the year,...
2023-02-01
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Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Daily Coping 1 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down. This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out...
2023-02-01
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Daily Coping 31 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal. One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with...
2023-01-31
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Flyway Desktop Projects for My PoC
In a previous post, I set up the basic databases for the PoC project I’m working on. In this next post, we’ll get the Flyway Desktop projects set up...
2023-01-31 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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Daily Coping 30 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to plan something fun and invite others to join you. The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some...
2023-01-30
14 reads
Daily Coping 27 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to try something new to get out of your comfort zone. I did two things here. First, I’ve been participating in a Jan American Cancer...
2023-01-27
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Daily Coping 26 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on what’s good, even if today feels tough. Yesterday was a tough day. I got busy, distracted, had some bad news come up,...
2023-01-26
15 reads
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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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