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Goals for 2024

• by HeyMo0sh

• The Hybrid DBA's Blog

Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...

2024-03-20

Interview around DevOps, Data, AI and Microsoft Fabric

• by HeyMo0sh

• The Hybrid DBA's Blog

A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...

2024-03-20

Speaking at dataMinds Saturday & Techorama 2024

• by Koen Verbeeck

• Koen Verbeeck

I have the pleasure to announce I’ll be presenting at two conferences this spring. The first one is at dataMinds Saturday 2024 (back in-person!): Yes, it’s a long abstract...

2024-03-20

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SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...

2024-03-20

What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...

2024-03-18

Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric

• by Koen Verbeeck

• Koen Verbeeck

You might know the feeling: you’re writing code in a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric and suddenly you have to leave your workstation for a while. Someone ran the doorbell...

2024-03-16

Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...

2024-03-16

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#ThankfulThursday

• by Tim Radney

• Tim Radney - Database Professional

Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the  Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...

2024-03-15

A New Word: Malotype

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...

2024-03-15

Friday Flyway Tips – Inserting Column in the Middle of a Table

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I had a customer question whether Flyway Desktop (FWD) would cause problems if developers were adding columns into the middle of tables. It’s a valid concern, and this post...

2024-03-15