Rounding Out PASS Summit 2019
If you are like me, when certain events end, it is a bittersweet time. You’ve enjoyed your time with people you consider family, got to learn some new things...
2019-11-15 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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If you are like me, when certain events end, it is a bittersweet time. You’ve enjoyed your time with people you consider family, got to learn some new things...
2019-11-15 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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Hiring consultants is like buying a new washing machine. In other words, you get what you pay for some times. A couple of months ago, my washer and dryer...
2019-11-15
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If you are at involved with the #sqlfamily, you are bound to hear about the benefits of social media platforms such as Twitter. Twitter helps us to engage each...
2019-10-31 (first published: 2019-10-18)
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In just a few days, I’ll begin my annual journey to Seattle, Washington for the PASS 2019 Summit. This is one of my favorite conferences to attend. It is...
2019-10-30
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Bench marking your environment is an important step when introducing new hardware, which is accomplished by running a test workload against the hardware. There are multiple ways to...
2019-10-03 (first published: 2019-09-27)
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Out of necessity are born the tools of laziness. This is a good thing. I have found that organizing and running a SQL Saturday event is a great way...
2019-09-23 (first published: 2019-09-13)
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In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless. This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure ecosystem. Moving to this...
2019-09-13 (first published: 2019-08-30)
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When dealing with cloud technology there is a phrase that everybody should remember: Physics Always Wins. There isn’t any way to get around the speed of light (2.98 x...
2019-07-26
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Recently, I needed to be able to determine the total size for all the most recent full backups for certain servers. Luckily for me these particular servers were using...
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-06-28)
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Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes...
2019-04-03 (first published: 2019-03-15)
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By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
I wrote a PowerQuery that parses a table from a PDF, and I want...
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