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.

Blog Post

Creativity in Technology

I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that...

2023-03-24 (first published: )

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Documentation vs Automation

Originally, I was going to write a post on troubleshooting SQL Server. This is because I’m writing up and reviewing a lot of documentation at my current job. I’ll...

2023-03-08 (first published: )

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Standards Matter

published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...

2022-04-21

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What I’ve Been Up To

Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...

2021-12-21

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Blogs

Using Cron in Postgres Flex

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pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...

Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger

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I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...

SQL Server Index Primer

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Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...

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Forums

How do you keep track of the purpose for SQL Logins?

By MK Morris

Wondering how others keep track of the purpose for SQL Logins?  I'm not talking...

Just a rant about the SQL Server 2022 upgrade

By cphite

Upgrading an instance of SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022 - I am...

Report Server Configuration Manager - The target principal name is incorrect SSL

By JDRocket

SQL Server SSRS 2022. Running into ' SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target...

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Question of the Day

Getting the TEXTSIZE

How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:

SET TEXTSIZE 8096
But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this?

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