TDE: Database Backups and High Availability
Database backups continue to work without change when you have TDE enabled. The only difference is that the backups contain encrypted data that cannot be read without the certificate...
2023-05-15
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Blog Posts
Techorama Slides – Analyze Cosmos DB Data with Synapse Link
I’ve uploaded the slides for my session at Techorama to Github.
The post Techorama Slides – Analyze Cosmos DB Data with Synapse Link first appeared on Under the kover of...
2023-05-15
14 reads
The first two chapters of my book are available!
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-05-15 (first published: 2023-05-03)
581 reads
A New Word: Vemödalen
vemoödalen – the fear that originality is no longer possible I used to worry about this, and often I thought that I’d run out of original things to do....
2023-05-12
82 reads
Experiments with GitHub CoPilot
There has been a lot of attention given to ChatGPT and AI over the last month or two. I’ve tried a few things with the public interface at Open.ai....
2023-05-12 (first published: 2023-05-03)
609 reads
New Stars of Data – SQL Bad Practices caught in the Wild
At the 12th of May 2023, a new edition of New Stars of Data takes place. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s a free virtual event focusing...
2023-05-12 (first published: 2023-05-11)
44 reads
Power BI Cruise Recap – Deep Data Dives
Thank you so much to those of you who were able to attend this three-hour, C# packed session! The Power BI Cruise was an incredible conference, and I cannot...
2023-05-12 (first published: 2023-05-02)
295 reads
The Importance of SQL Server Performance Tuning in the Cloud
Make sure your cloud SQL Server databases are optimized and achieve significant cost savings.
2023-05-12
99 reads
Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data
An in-depth look at how you convert an existing table with data to a system versioned table that will maintain a history of changes.
2023-05-11
124 reads
Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Hello Dear Reader! My lastest blog on our Azure FastTrack blog for Microsoft is live, Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Here's a little from the blog:To paraphrase Annie,...
2023-05-10 (first published: 2023-05-02)
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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