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Shared Work Spaces: Hell, Heaven, Both?

I've just finished working in my fourth shared work space.

I am not a fan.

The endless hallways with all these little glassed in rooms where I can see everyone, and everyone can see me, are not my favorite places. I can see white boards with content that maybe I shouldn't be seeing. There are all these strangers. Don't get me started on the open, shared work environment where you're just sitting with a bunch of people at long tables.

Ugh!

All that said, I've been at these places for meetings with co-workers. Many of whom, due to the, let's say, interesting last couple of years, I have never met. Further, some of them had never met each other. Just getting to see the people I depend on at work, talk with them, look them in the eye as we talk (and really in the eye, not looking either at my camera or at their face, online meetings are not the same, no matter what you say), are marvelous experiences.

More than that, we get work done. Fast and efficient. Sure, the environment pings on my paranoid, introvert self in ways that are hard to describe. However, I can't deny that these shared work environments are essential tools in today's world. While I may not care for the concept, there's absolutely no denying the utility, at least from what I've seen so far.

Have you used these? What do you think of them?

Oh, I do like the fresh coffee that I don't have to make. That's very nice.

Grant Fritchey

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The Weekly News
All the headlines and interesting SQL Server information that we've collected over the past week, and sometimes even a few repeats if we think they fit.
Vendors/3rd Party Products

Four ways to elevate team efficiency and code quality

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Administration of SQL Server

New in SQL Server 2022 – Generate_Series

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SQL Server vs Oracle: Semantic Search

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Pour One Out for Distributed Replay. It’s Deprecated in SQL Server 2022.

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SQL Server 2022 – GREATEST and LEAST

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xp_cmdshell and sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account stored procedures in SQL Server

From SQLShack

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SQL Server Health Checks Webinar

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What I did in my first month at Stack Overflow

From SQLBlog.org

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Azure CosmosDB

Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB

From Azure Updates

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Azure Synapse (SQL Data Warehouse and Data Lake)

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From Guy in a Cube

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Computing in the Cloud (Azure, Google, AWS)

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AWS Week in Review – June 20, 2022

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File-Based Log Monitoring on AWS MYSQL RDS

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Public preview: Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB

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Azure SQL—Generally available updates for late June 2022

From Azure Updates

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Conferences, Classes, Events, and Webinars

DevOps 101 webinar: The role of Automation

Join Grant Fritchey to discover how automating your database deployments enables you to speed up software delivery with repeatable processes that stop your database being the bottleneck.

DMO/SMO/Powershell

How to Create Files and Folders with PowerShell

From Petri IT Knowledgebase

When you need to create files and folders on a...

Top 10 PowerShell Tips of 2022 (So Far)

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Our most-read PowerShell articles included instructions for encrypting scripts, initializing disks, and using If Else statements.

Data Mining / Data Analysis

Five Tips for Telling a Compelling Data Story

From Dataversity

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Database Design, Theory and Development

Automating Flyway Development Chores using Database Diagrams

If you can generate a quick Entity-Relationship diagram for any version of a database, you'll have a simple way to 'sanity check' it for unreferenced tables, missing keys and other design flaws. This article shows how to auto-generate these diagrams when running a migration, using Flyway Teams and PowerShell.

DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Including reference data into a database deployment process or passing lookup tables to Production

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What is a data pipeline?

From MSSQL Tips

In this article we cover what data pipelines are, how they compare to ETL and some of the tools that are available.

DevOps 101: Introducing Database DevOps

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In this fourth session in our DevOps 101 series, w...

MDX/DAX

Understanding the optimization of SWITCH

From Sqlbi

The SWITCH function in DAX has been optimized over...

Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL/other RDBMS

Learn PostgreSQL: Install PostgreSQL on CentOS Linux

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PowerPivot/PowerQuery/PowerBI

Why can’t Power BI connect to my cloud source???

From Guy in a Cube

You have a cloud data source like Azure SQL Database. Why can't Power BI connect to it? They are both in the cloud! Adam shows you some things to...

Datamarts and exploratory analysis using Power BI

During Build 2022, Microsoft announced a new feature, Datamarts for Power BI. MVP Dennes Torres explains this new feature and provides and example.

Azure Synapse Link for SQL: From production to a data warehouse in a few clicks

Microsoft announced Azure Synapse Link for SQL. In this article, MVP Dennes Torres explains the new feature.

Professional Development

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Perhaps Too Much Validation

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Consulting From The Client's Perspective

From BlueGranite Blog

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R Language

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SQL Server Security and Auditing

How to generate a self signed certificate for SQL Server with New-SelfSignedCertificate

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TLS v SSL : which should you use

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Security News and Issues

Getting a Better Handle on Identity Management in the Cloud

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Presumption of Compromise

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ShiftLeft: Focus On 'Attackability' To Better Prioritize Vulnerabilities

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T-SQL and Query Languages

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Advanced T-SQL String Searching And Parsing Techniques In SQL Server

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Steve Demonstrates Data Paging with CTE’s

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CTE’s in Stored Procedures, Functions and Views

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Tech News

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Virtualization and Containers/Kubernetes

5 Best Practices for Simplifying Kubernetes Management

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Most people find setting up and managing Kubernetes to be difficult, but it doesn't have to be — if you follow these five best practices.

 
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