Voice of the DBA

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  • Daily Coping 21 Sep 2020

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

    Today’s tip is to talk kindly to yourself like you would to someone you love.

    The power of words can be incredible. I find far, far too many people discount words for actions. They also discount the impact of their words.

    Perhaps this is one reason I find most people to be a worse version of themselves online.

    In any case, one thing that a couple decades of parenting has taught me is to provide support with responsibility and accountability. I give kind words at the same time I demand things. I recognize the value of recognizing the good, even when other things go wrong.

    For me, I didn’t get enough done this weekend, but I did get some things done, including some relaxing time. I need to remember to appreciate what I did, even while I may demand more from myself in the future.

  • Daily Coping 18 Sep 2020

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

    Today’s tip is to make time to do something you really enjoy.

    I’ll be on holiday, but my plan is to spend some time playing guitar, sitting on the balcony of our condo and enjoying the afternoon.

    If the weather is bad, I’ll see by the window.

  • Daily Coping 17 Sep 2020

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

    Today’s tip is to let go of being busy. Allow yourself to take some breaks today.

    I’m on holiday today, a welcome break as I try to comply with my 60% taken by the end of this month. As a result, I’m not trying to be busy. I asked my wife if we could take a couple days and just relax. No horses, no chores, no plans.

    We’ll pack a few clothes, which is really the biggest stress item today. Then we’ll put the dogs in the car and drive to the mountains to stay for a few days.

    A welcome break.

  • Git Tricks–Getting a New Remote Branch–#SQLNewBlogger

    Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.

    This is probably more for me than anyone, but as I’ve been working in more team demos, I find I need to up my git skills. In this case, a fellow team member created a new branch, and I needed to get it on my local machine.

    I know many git clients will make this easy, but I always like to see what happens at the CLI. This keeps my skills fresh, and I can see all the git output, some of which might be hidden in a client.

    In this case, the team member had created a branch on Github. I’ll demo this by creating my own branch as feature/demotest. I see the branch online.

    2020-08-18 15_30_25-way0utwest_dbascripts at feature_demotest

    However, I don’t see it locally.

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    If I know the name, I get fetch this, or pull it, from the remote. In this case, either of these code items will work.

    git pull origin feature/demotest

    or

    git fetch origin feature/demotest

    Once I do this, I can checkout the branch, which will match the remote with this code:

    git checkout feature/demotest

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    Now it’s a branch that is tracking the remote with my local copy.

    SQLNewBlogger

    This was a quick Google search to figure out how to do this, but since I’ve had to search a couple times in the last month, I decided to write this and cement the knowledge in my head. At least, I hope it does.

    This took about 5 minutes to write and demo. A quick thing, but a good way to show some learning and knowledge on your blog.