Blog Posts

Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App 

• by Rob Sewell

• SQL DBA With A Beard

Here's how we used WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS to build our local development app, Studio.

2024-07-31

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Finding Where xp_cmdshell is Used

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I saw a post recently where someone was concerned about where xp_cmdshell was in use inside their system. They felt it was a security risk, and decided to get...

2024-07-31

Tech in 2030

• by Arun Sirpal

• All About SQL

What will the technology world look like in 2030? Cloud computing will naturally be the backbone of the world but I think with variants in “decentralising” concepts. By this...

2024-07-31

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Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity

• by Rob Sewell

• SQL DBA With A Beard

The short answer is: You’ll be eligible for a piece of the pie, plus increased traffic to your website.

2024-07-30

DevOps Days Minneapolis

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

Once again, I’m off to a conference next week. This time it is DevOps Days Minneapolis. I haven’t been to a DevOps Days event, though I always enjoy DevOps...

2024-07-29

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Regular Expressions to Generate Disable/Drop Index Scripts

• by alevyinroc

• FLX SQL

Earlier this year, I embarked on a bit of a project to tidy up the indexes in a sizeable database. This database has over 900 tables, and there are...

2024-07-29

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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024–Resources

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

For my talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024, here are the resources. Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx GitHub: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime If you have questions, reach out.

2024-07-27

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A New Word: Vicarous

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were in your shoes, eager to watch another actor put their own spin on the character...

2024-07-26

Automattic for Agencies x Endoh Collaborative: A Match Made in WordPress Heaven

• by Rob Sewell

• SQL DBA With A Beard

Endoh Collaborative harnesses the power of Automattic for Agencies to spend more time on their clients.

2024-07-26

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SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into Kubernetes for test/dev purposes, and we don’t want to backup/restore. How can it be done?...

2024-07-26

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