John's little blog

A little blog of things that I find interesting.

Deploying Azure SQL Database with Terraform

I have been using Terraform for a few years now, and I have to say that I am a big fan. It is versatile and can be extended using PowerShell, Bash, Command line, and ARM where …

Posted by John Q. Martin on Tue, Mar 19, 2024

Tales from the T-SQL Tuesday Archive: #019 - Disaster Recovery

Another post from the T-SQL Tuesday archives finds me thinking about disaster recovery and how far things have come. Back in June of 2011 Allan Kinsel talked about how the onset of …

Posted by John Q. Martin on Tue, Mar 12, 2024

Tales from the T-SQL Tuesday Archive: #004 IO

Another trip into the T-SQL Tuesday archive today, this time taking a look at the topic of IO which was originally posted by Mike Walsh back in March 2010. Thinking back over my …

Posted by John Q. Martin on Tue, Mar 5, 2024

Tales from the T-SQL Tuesday Archive: #012 Why are DBA Skills Necessary

For this post I’m diving into the T-SQL Tuesday archives for inspiration, and I’m going to be discussing Paul Randal’s topic of Why DBA Skills are Necessary. …

Posted by John Q. Martin on Tue, Feb 27, 2024

Sql Bits 2024

SQL Bits 2024 - March 22nd, Farnborough, UKI’m going to be presenting my session “The Swiss Cheese Security Pattern” on the Friday at SQL Bits in Farnborough at …

Posted by John Q. Martin on Sun, Feb 25, 2024