Blog by Emily - Database Developer
When was the last time you checked on your Oracle database tablespaces and their datafiles, how those things are set up and organized? Are you sure that your tablespaces and datafiles are set up in a way that won t cause an error the next time data is inserted into a table? If you are coming [ ]
I recently had a post about how to manage deleted Azure Key Vaults: how to find them after they ve been deleted, how to recover them if you didn t really want them to be deleted, and how to purge them if you want them to be permanently removed. In today s post, I am going to cover [ ]
In the past couple of months, I have run into some annoying limitations and unsupported features with T-SQL in our Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools, which is where my team puts our data warehouses for reporting needs across our business. These unsupported features were a bit surprising to me, which is why I ve decided to [ ]
This is going to be a super quick post, inspired by my late-night searching while trying to finally enable the anti-spam feature from Akismet (Jetpack) on this website. Every time I went through the Jetpack settings page and tried to enable the Personal version of the tool, I would click the Learn More button to [ ]
Having delete protection on shared cloud resources is usually a very nice and beneficial feature to enable, since it protects you and your organization from the disaster of someone accidentally deleting a resource they didn t intend to by keeping the resource available in the background for restore after deletion. My team has the feature enabled [ ]
I am going to keep today s post short and sweet, covering a quick change I needed to make to my SharePoint Online Indexer (still in preview but we re using it for our custom chat bots) to make the index of a SharePoint library return the true URL of the source document so that we can [ ]
You need to regularly be reviewing news sources for announcements about cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits if you are working anywhere in the IT field. There have never been more threats to our digital footprints than there are right now, and attackers are getting more ingenious with their attacks every day. I used to not [ ]
As technical professionals, those of us in the IT field tend to lean towards writing with technical language when we are communicating with others, whether that is with other members of our own teams or with business users or customers. While we may find our technical writing easy to understand, that may not be the [ ]
Do you have an old or bad Oracle admin password that you ve been putting off changing because you re scared of the impacts? Has your Oracle SYS user password been through the hands of multiple generations of database developers? Or maybe you just need to start regularly rotating your admin passwords to meet auditing guidelines? If [ ]
Have you ever tried to take a backup of your Azure Storage Account? If you did, were you able to actually set up and take backups for your Storage Accounts? I was not lucky enough to set up backups for a Storage Account recently when asked to by Microsoft Support, but I learned a lot [ ]