Getting Started with Azure CLI to Manage Azure Resources

Learn about Azure CLI and how to manage your Azure resources using commands instead of using the Azure portal.

PASS Summit Futures Scholarship

In celebration of their 25th anniversary in 2024, Redgate, as the host of PASS Summit, is thrilled to introduce the PASS Summit Futures Scholarship. This initiative aims to empower the next generation of data professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Applications are open internationally to students and early-career professionals. Each of the 10 lucky winners will be awarded:

A Quick Turnaround

Steve has a quick turnaround between trips that was a bit unexpected. Is there compensation for this?

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.