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Building a Terraform module for Azure SQL DB is like packaging your infrastructure magic into a reusable box. It’s the kind of thing that makes your IT life smoother. This approach tidies up your setup, making it easy to manage and reuse across different projects.…
According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His book is a great introduction and is helpful even if you’ve been using Kusto Query Language…
I know I can use extended events (xevents) in Azure SQL DB when in SSMS, but I wanted to learn how to use them in Azure Data Studio (ADS). Xevents in SSMS You can use xevents in SSMS with Azure SQL DBs by navigating inside…
I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide me with enough information to use and share with others. These queries only work if you…
Initially, I thought I would have to use sqlcmd because I’m on a Mac and don’t have SSMS. It turns out Azure Data Studio has a nifty way to import data from flat files – yay! SQL Server Import Extension You will need the SQL…
One day, I shut down my computer, as I usually do nightly. This time, I shut it down on a Friday and turned it back on after a holiday weekend, only to discover that Docker would not start! The Error Everything was fine on the…
Don’t use runbooks as Elastic Agent is much better for this. You can find out how with different automation and manual techniques with my posts here. Yes, you still need to do some work to maintain indexes in Azure SQL Database. This post will walk…
I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is off. Who wants to wait until off-hours to run scripts if you could devise a way…
This month I prompted bloggers to talk about what database job titles mean to them. Thank you to all who posted on this topic! Don’t worry; if you still need help understanding all the database job titles, you could always make up your own, like…
It’s an honor to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case you don’t know the rules already, here is a recap of them: Earlier this year, when I was looking for a new job, I realized that there are a lot of conceptions about what…