A New Word: Chysalism
Chysalism – n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm? While I love the sun, I did enjoy thunderstorms when I lived in Virginia. Something neat about...
2023-05-05
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Blog Posts
Change the Default Git Branch for a dbt Cloud Project
In dbt, you can link your project to a github account, which is obviously the right thing to do. By default, the project uses the main branch. But what...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Exporting SQL Data Compare Results to Excel
I had someone ask recently about getting SQL Data Compare results in Excel. It’s easy to do and this post looks at the process. Exporting a Comparison I won’t...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Traveling to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023
I’m heading to SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023 today, speaking tomorrow. After not making any of their events, I went in 2022 and am back for their 15th event this...
2023-05-05
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Adding microseconds to a timestamp in Azure Data Factory
(2023-Apr-25) It’s not hard to see that many different teams were involved in building Azure Data Factory (ADF) product at Microsoft. It doesn’t have conformed constraints for naming the objects...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Find out how fast is your SQL database growing using the backup metadata from msdb
Sometimes I need to know how fast a database is growing, or which particular database is growing the most out of all the databases on a SQL instance. Now...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Azure Resource Group
What is Azure Resource Group? Azure Resource Group is a powerful feature that enables effective organization and management of resources in the Azure cloud. A Resource Group is a...
2023-05-01
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How to use the new dynamic format strings for measures in Power BI
The April 2023 release of Power BI desktop introduced a new preview feature called dynamic format strings for measures. This allows us to return values with different formats from...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-21)
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New Job -> Week 6 -> Ozar sp_BlitzIndex
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 6 goal: Analyze all Azure SQL Database indexes. Last week, I...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 04-24-2023 Steve Martin, Martin Short, & Tacos
Hello Dear Reader! I've realized something writting this blog. I don't like to sit still. It is very rare that I have a down weekend, and this weekend was...
2023-05-01
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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('Steve', 'Stan')
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