Getting Started With Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
This article shows how to get started with the PostgreSQL API in Azure Cosmos DB.
It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy
I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy.
Stairway to Database Containers Level 1: Getting Started with Database Containers
In the first level of the Stairway to Database Containers, we learn how to get started with Docker for Windows, downloading an image, and starting a container.
Stairway to Database Containers Level 2: Persisting Storage in Containers
The second level of the Stairway to Database Containers looks at the basics of persisting storage in your containers.
Stairway to Database Containers Level 3: Building Custom Container Images by Hand
In this next level of the Stairway to Database Containers learn how to customer a container and save the changes to a new image.
We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
An Alternative (Better?) Method to UNPIVOT (SQL Spackle)
Normalizing or UNPIVOTing data may be improved by using this lesser known approach in SQL Server 2008 or later.
I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
Migrate a SQL Server Database to a PostgreSQL Database
Learn about various options to migrate an entire SQL Server database to a PostgreSQL database.
Thinking About Technology
Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
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Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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