Autumn Update - Trick or Treat
Its been a busy few weeks for me, most of that outside of gethynellis.com I’m in the process of moving...
2016-11-01
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Gethyn Ellis
You don't need any Training? OK...I believe you.
This week's Super duper IT training offers are in:
If you see any that take your fancy let me know. Drop...
2016-10-13
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SQL Friday: Weekly Round up 30th September
This week has been a relatively relaxed week for me. I had a one-day onsite event in Cardiff on Wednesday...
2016-09-30
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How to Setup Kerberos Correctly
David was in Copenhagen this weekend delivering his Kerberos talk Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL DBA to SQL...
2016-09-29 (first published: 2016-09-20)
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Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!
As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...
2016-09-29
779 reads
Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio
Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...
2016-09-28
1,148 reads
SQL Relay 2016
It less than week to SQL Relay - a week long SQL conference that is visiting Birmingham, Cardiff, Reading, Nottingham and...
2016-09-27
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TGI SQL Friday: Weekly Roundup 23rd September
Its been another Learning Tree week for me this week and a very interesting one at that. I'm on the...
2016-09-23
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Have you Upgraded From SQL Server 2005?
My first Learning Tree SQL Server Newsletter that was sent out back in August was titled SQL Server 2016: Keeping...
2016-09-22
468 reads
Building Oracle 12c on Linux 7 on Hyper-V
David has written a white paper, or short ebook titled building oracle 12C on Linux 7 VM residing on Hyper-V....
2016-09-19
458 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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