Daily Coping 23 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to give sincere compliments today to people. A tough day recently coaching, but I kept this in mind. Complementing parents, competitors and fellow coaches, and...
2023-02-23
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 22 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to share something you find inspiring, helpful, or amusing. Maybe not inspiring to you, but it was for me. We recorded a number of customers...
2023-02-22
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New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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Query Store Data Cleanup
Microsoft supplies quite a few knobs to control how Query Store performs data cleanup. You can set your cleanup various ways, and, they interact. Let’s talk about how and...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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Daily Coping 21 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to respond kindly to everyone you talk to today. This is often easy for me. I did this last week while traveling. I got coffee...
2023-02-21
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What Happens On AWS RDS?
I was talking with some developers from my team about monitoring, and I said, “We all use the same tools,” referring to other monitoring software. Then, it hit me....
2023-02-21
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Daily Coping 20 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate the good qualities of someone in your life. We have a person in Redgate that does a lot of work to support our...
2023-02-20
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Deadline for Microsoft MVP contributions is 20 March 2023
Since changing to the new MVP renewal model, Microsoft MVPs have had until 31 March each year to provide the list of their annual contributions. For 2023, the deadline...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Rotating a Certificate Used by TDE
In terms of encryption, Key Rotation is the process of replacing your encryption keys on a periodic basis. This is considered good practice and is required by many security...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-31)
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Announcing SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers