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PASS Summit Week
This week is the annual PASS Data Community Summit. I’m up in Seattle, getting ready for the event. This year the conference is a little shorter. Rather than being gone from home for an entire week, I arrived last night and am heading home on Thursday. That’s nice as I’ve been gone a lot this year. My fun with travel post looked at my travel and contained a lot of blue lines in 2026. In any case,…
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Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this for some time and we now have Databricks and Snowflake support. I’ve been working with Flyway and Flyway Desktop and helping customers improve their database development. This series looks at some tips I’ve gotten along the way. Analytic Platforms There has been tremendous growth in the usage, and the capabilities of many major analytics platforms. A few years ago Snowflake was the dominant…
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I Love Creative People
LGTM (Looks Good to Me) is a song about AI and the way it’s been used, or maybe how a lot of people think it’s been used in organizations. I find it catchy, creative, and most importantly, funny. I chuckled out loud. As a side note, this is one of the amazing things I see with technology these days. There are many incredibly creative people who do amazing things. Even the music/reels/etc. that I don’t like can…
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The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate – 2012 edition, the book opens with a photo album of the early years. We’ve got a bunch of images from up high, where employees were spelling out our anniversaries. We have the 12th anniversary here, with a disorganized view. and an organized one. There are other photos in the book as well, which mimic what we have in the offices. In each location,…
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The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new Fixed Server roles added to SQL Server. They are supposed to help ensure the principle of least privilege is followed. In this post, I look at one of these, the ##MSDatabaseConnector## role. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Users and Logins This role is a new one that…
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