Fritchey Family Christmas Movies
MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY YULETIDE! HAPPY HANUKKUH! Instead of something technical, let’s take a moment to just kick back and enjoy a few great Christmas movies. Now, let’s be clear....
2019-12-23
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Grant Fritchey
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Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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Distributing Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)
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Tracking CPU Use Over Time
A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...
2019-12-16 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM
Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Your First Jupyter Notebook
In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...
2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-19)
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2019-11-23
1,881 reads
Docker, Git and DBATools
For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...
2019-11-20 (first published: 2019-11-11)
620 reads
Every Execution Plan Is An Estimated Plan
I consider myself to be the most responsible for making such a huge deal about the differences between what is labeled as an Estimated Plan and an Actual Plan....
2019-11-05 (first published: 2019-10-22)
517 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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