Daily Coping 18 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to say positive things to the people you meet today. In general, I don’t encounter a lot of people on any day, but I do...
2023-01-18
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The Voice of the DBA
Daily Coping 17 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get moving. Ideally do something outside. Taking time to walk the dogs outside, heading to the dog park to get them, and me, some...
2023-01-18
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SQL Bits 2023
I’m honored to be heading back to SQL Bits 2023. I was selected to deliver one session, in the professional development track. With so many people submitting, I’m not...
2023-01-17
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No Flyway Baseline No Migration
In my experiments with the Flyway CLI (fwcli), I’m finding some interesting behavior, some of which is catching my by surprise. This post looks at the baseline command and...
2023-01-16
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Daily Coping 16 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to learn something new and share it with others. I do this all the time. It’s a part of my job, and I did this...
2023-01-16
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Daily Coping 13 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take five minutes to sit still and breathe. Sounds simple. I find this to be very challenging. If I’m just sitting here, why am...
2023-01-13
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Daily Coping 12 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to write a list of things you feel grateful for and why. My wife – our relationship continues to grow, and I cherish this after...
2023-01-12
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Getting Started Connecting to a Database with Flyway
In a previous post, I got Flyway installed as a CLI utility (command line interface). This post will look at the first connection to a database. If you need...
2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-11)
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The Database DevOps SeQueL with SQL Solutions Group
Next week, on Jan 18, 2023, I’m doing another webinar with the SQL Solutions Group. This is the SeQueL to our first webinar on Database DevOps. You can register...
2023-01-11
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Daily Coping 11 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to do a kind act for someone else today to brighten their day This is one I’ve done before, but this tip reminded me to...
2023-01-11
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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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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