Automation is a Key Skill for the Modern DBA
This month's T-SQL Tuesday had lots of posts that look at automation from the DBA perspective, rather than the software developer.
2020-09-12
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Editorials
Remote Work Benefits
Today Steve wonders if companies ought to support remote work better with other benefits.
2020-09-11
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2020-09-10
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Do You Have Big Data?
Data sizes are always growing. Stats on world data are astounding, as are the stats many of us experience in our lives. Plenty of us have moved from MB management to GBs, and I see plenty of people dealing with TB storage at home. Most of that data is likely from images and video, but […]
2020-09-09
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The Best Security for Database Administrators
Today Steve talks about limiting security issues for administrators.
2020-09-08
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2020-09-07
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Mentoring
Over the years when I changed careers and then advanced in IT, many people helped me learn or provided opportunities. Some of these people gave specific in-person help, like my brothers who taught me programming logic and database normalization before I ever thought about working in technology. Others assisted from a distance when I read […]
2020-09-05
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Emergency Preparedness
Being prepared for things to go wrong is important, more so these days than in much of our past.
2020-09-04
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Can You Catch SQL Injection?
Steve found an attack against Google's SQL database that their SREs detected.
2020-09-03
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2020-09-02
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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