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Daily Coping 15 Feb 2023

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

Today’s coping tip is to look for good in others, particularly when you feel frustrated. We all deal with conflicts with others throughout out lives. How we handle those...

2023-02-15

Patch your SQL Server instance today

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

On 14 February 2023, Microsoft released updates for all supported versions of SQL Server in the form of a General Distribution Release (GDR). A GDR is an out-of-band update...

2023-02-15

Build Once – Add Metadata

• by Koen Verbeeck

• Koen Verbeeck

When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...

2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)

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Daily Coping 14 Feb 2023

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

Today’s coping tip is to thank someone and tell them how they made a difference for you. I’ve had a lot of success in my life, as well as...

2023-02-14

Out of Your SSMS World, Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio – Louisville Data Technology Group, Feb 2023

• by DataOnWheels

• DataOnWheels

It was a lot of fun to speak at the Louisville Data Technology Group in February. Sheila and I presented on Jupyter notebooks in Azure Data Studio. The session...

2023-02-14

Speaking at Techorama 2023

• by Koen Verbeeck

• Koen Verbeeck

I’m excited to announce I’ve been selected again as a speaker for Techorama 2023. Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-focused events in the European mainland, and it’s always...

2023-02-14

Daily Coping 13 Feb 2023

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

Today’s coping tip is to show an active interest by asking questions when talking to others. I listen more and more these days. I’m trying to input less and...

2023-02-13

Queries Impacting TempDB

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

The question came up that someone wanted to monitor the queries impacting tempdb using Extended Events. Initially, I was pretty sure that there was no real way to do...

2023-02-13

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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 02-06-2023

• by SQLBalls

• SQLBalls

 Hello Dear Reader!  We had a great last week on Tales from the Field.  This weekend was also a really nice one.  On Saturday a group of friends gathered...

2023-02-13

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The Baseline for Flyway

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

In my previous post, I set up the Flyway Desktop projects for SQL Server and PostgreSQL. I also added a table to each platform for development. In this post,...

2023-02-13