All-Day at Virtual Houston Tech Fest 2020
It's a full day at Houston Tech Fest 2020 for us. Speaking at Houston TechFest is an decade-long annual tradition interrupted only by a hurricane and one year where I...
2020-09-12
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Will Assaf
New Microsoft Azure Certifications presentation at BRSSUG
Hi internet!
Thanks to the surprising number of you who joined our first ever virtual meeting of the Baton Rouge .NET and SQL Server User Groups tonight!
I presented on the...
2020-09-09
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Measure Ethical Data Analysis by Outcomes, Not Intent
Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested on his front lawn in a suburb of Detroit, Mich., after police...
2020-08-26
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SQLSaturday Auckland: Certification Exams Inside Out this Weekend!
Looking forward to virtually presenting at SQLSaturday Auckland 2020 this weekend! I'll be presenting at 10:45AM Auckland time on Saturday, but that's 5:45pm Friday evening where I am in Central...
2020-08-03
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On Dynamic Ports, Named Instances, and Firewalls
Recently I had a client and their vendor trying to configure a firewall for a new installation of SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019.Connections to the SQL Server...
2020-07-17 (first published: 2020-07-13)
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Ethics in Modern Data at the Houston SQL Server and BI User Groups, July 2020
On July 14, Christine and I presented at the Houston SQL Server and BI User Groups' virtual meeting. Our joint presentation is one of our favorites to present, Ethics in Modern Data.
Thanks...
2020-07-14
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Presenting on Ethics in Modern Data at Houston HASSUG/SQL BI Group July 2020 Meeting
Looking forward to presenting with my wife Christine Assaf our talk on Ethics in Modern Data at the Houston Area SQL Group and BI Group's virtual meeting on Tuesday...
2020-07-01
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SOLVED! Untrusted SAS certs after SQL startup
If you've tried doing Backup to URL with SQL Server using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) certificate and received this error: Error: 18204, Severity: 16, State: 1.BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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Data Community #DataWeekender Europe 2020: Ethics in Modern Data
On Saturday May 2 Christine and I are presenting at the Data Community #DataWeekender Europe 2020 online conference, an all-online free virtual popup Microsoft Data Conference hosted by various professionals...
2020-05-02
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How to Think Like a Certification Exam at the PASS Professional Development Virtual Group
Thanks for the 90+ who joined today's PASS Professional Development Virtual Group webinar on Certification Exams Inside Out: How to Think Like a Certification Exam! This was a lot of...
2020-04-03
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Announcing SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers