Daily Coping 19 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to remember if you’re busy, allow yourself to pause and take a break. I’m in the UK today, and at the Redgate...
2022-09-19
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Blog Posts
Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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Mental Health Bullet Journal – Collect Data to Help Your Mental Health
Purpose This blog and bullet journal was specially created to help me with my tendency to have suicidal ideation, depressive, and manic episodes related to
The post Mental Health Bullet...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-06)
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Unexpected Blocking during the Indexed View Creation
The problem
There was a need to make changes to a table with an Indexed View. Since Indexed Views must be created with SCHEMABINDING, the View must be dropped and...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Comment might be free, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen
I have turned off comments on this site. All existing comments have been removed. Even the nice ones from awesome people, and the helpful ones, and the ones answering...
2022-09-16
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Daily Coping 16 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to aim to be good enough, rather than perfect. I find that many of us that work in technology want a solution...
2022-09-16
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Future Data Driven
I was honored to speak at Future Data Driven last year. This year has a great lineup with some fantastic sessions on data related topics. Register today for the...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-02)
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Web Hosting SQL Database Management Made Easy With Linux
If you’ve never used Linux before, you might wonder how to manage a database on a server. Managing a database can be simple or complex, depending on the needs...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to do something you really enjoy. I do enjoy life, and I’m lucky that I have the chance to do a lot...
2022-09-15
12 reads
Making the mouse pointer easier to see.
I know this is way off my usual content but the other day someone was mentioning how easy it is ... Continue reading
2022-09-15
19 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie...
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
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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;
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