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Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2023

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Year 15 for Jacksonville! SQLSaturday Jax was held on May 6 this year, back at the usual location on the campus of the University of North Florida. At the...

2023-06-13

Across the Water Again

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’m in the UK again, for my second trip this year. This time I have no commitments for speaking or presenting anything. I’m in town for a Marketing get-together...

2023-06-12

Success vs. Scalability: Why your biggest success might also be your biggest disaster

• by Matthew McGiffen

• Matthew McGiffen DBA

There is a scenario I have seen again and again. A company has developed a nice piece of software which many clients are running with happily. Then along comes...

2023-06-12

Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 06-05-2023 Live 360, the Missing Week, & the Pain in the Back

• by SQLBalls

• SQLBalls

 Hello Dear Reader! Let's address the missing week.  Last week I was really behind due to the move.  We did not have a Monday video and despite my best...

2023-06-12

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Code signing for mere mortals

• by Gianluca Sartori

• SpaghettiDBA

Well, turns out code signing is pretty complex, so I’m writing this blog post as a guide for my future self. I hope he will appreciate, and perhaps some...

2023-06-10

A New Word: Slipfast

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

slipfast adj. longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part in it –...

2023-06-09

Blogging for the Tech Professional at Denver Dev Days

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

For those that attended my talk at Denver Dev Days, here are the slides: BloggingFortheTechPro.pptx A couple interesting questions that I need to add to the deck. What do...

2023-06-09

Getting AI Written Unit Tests

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

As a part of my AI experiments, I decided to ask CoPilot to write some unit tests. Here is what happened. The Prompt To get started, you enter a...

2023-06-09

Azure chaos STUDIO

• by Arun Sirpal

• All About SQL

Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It is great leveraging the cloud to build something, whether that’s a globally distributed website with...

2023-06-08

Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022. What is it and is it any good?

• by Matthew McGiffen

• Matthew McGiffen DBA

Parameter Sensitive Plan (PSP) optimization is a new feature in SQL Server 2022 that aims to improve the performance of parameterized queries. It is part of the Intelligent Query...

2023-06-08