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
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Using SQL Data Compare from the Command Line with a Project
SQL Data Compare (SDC) is a great way to sync data among tables. It’s a software utility analogous to SQL Compare, but working with data rather than schema. I...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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Daily Coping 25 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to be gentle with yourself when you make mistakes. I forgot about a commitment. I had agreed to do a webinar and prepare some content....
2023-01-25
7 reads
Daily Coping 24 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice five beautiful things. I decided to do this on a snowy, stormy day in Denver. I was up early with...
2023-01-24
9 reads
Starting the Flyway PoC–Environment
I’ve had a goal to redo my demo environments and get them set up to work for a variety of customers in different places. I decided to do this...
2023-02-03 (first published: 2023-01-23)
112 reads
Daily Coping 23 Jan 2022
Today’s coping tip is to eat healthy today with some nourishing food. A few days before think I was getting ready for my daughter to leave for university. I...
2023-01-23
13 reads
Daily Coping 20 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a different route today and see what you notice. I’ve had this tip come up a few times and each time I’ve enjoyed...
2023-01-20
15 reads
Daily Coping 19 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to switch off tech an hour before bedtime. I read at night often, so this is a challenging one. However, I decided to give this...
2023-01-19
21 reads
Heading Back to VS Live in March 2023
I’m speaking at VS Live in March 2023 for the Las Vegas show. This time it’s at Planet Hollywood, which is a hotel a new place for me. I’m...
2023-01-18
17 reads
Connecting to PostgreSQL from Azure Data Studio
I’ve been doing a bit of work with PostgreSQL as part of my work with Redgate. PostgreSQL is a relational platform that is open source, free to use, available...
2023-01-18
59 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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