hellosqlkitty

Josephine Bush is a Data Platform MVP and has over 10 years of experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data sectors using SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL along with Azure and AWS. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics. She presents at SQL conferences and user groups around the world. She is the leader of the Boulder SQL user group. She blogs on sqlkitty.com and you can reach her on Twitter @hellosqlkitty.

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Kusto (KQL) for Azure SQL Audit

According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His...

2024-01-03 (first published: )

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Azure Workbooks

I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide...

2023-12-13 (first published: )

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Temporal Table Data Fixes

I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...

2023-09-29 (first published: )

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Blogs

A New Word: Dolorblindness

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dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

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Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists

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Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...

SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files

By mario17

Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...

Case part is sloooooow

By krypto69

Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
Assume preview features are enabled.

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