Friday Flyway Tips–Commit and Push
Flyway Desktop includes version control features with Git. One thing that was added in v6.5+ was the ability to commit and push. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for...
2023-09-15
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Blog Posts
Persisting data for SQL Server on Docker Swarm with Portworx
In my last couple of blog posts (here and here) I talked about how to get SQL Server running in Docker Swarm. But there is one big (and show-stopping)...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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T-SQL Tuesday #166: Wrap-up
Once more, my apologies for being late on getting the T-SQL Tuesday announcement out. I have no excuse. However, our extended event on Extended Events (yes, I’m the third...
2023-09-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #166: Why Not Extended Events?
With 165 T-SQL Tuesday events, two, just two, this one, T-SQL Tuesday #166, and another one back in 2018 or 2019 (I forget and I’m far too lazy to...
2023-09-14
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Creating Empty Repos in Azure DevOps–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure DevOps. They got a conflict, which I’ll show and then get you started with an...
2023-09-13
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Restarting What’s Important
I’m currently in Enterprise Architecture in my organization and as a result, I blogged earlier about putting up study notes with regards to preparing for the two TOGAF (The...
2023-09-13
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Restoring SSAS Cubes to a SQL 2022 Server with CU5
I have a client who was upgrading some servers from pre-2022 versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2022 CU7. They had some multidimensional SSAS cubes that were to...
2023-09-13 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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Windows Hello may cause a “SSPI Context” error
I’m going to start out by saying I don’t know a tremendous amount about this subject. I’ll tell you what ... Continue reading
2023-09-13 (first published: 2023-08-22)
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Webinar: The Cloud, the Future, and Bob Ward at the Summit
I’m doing a webinar next week with Bob Ward, a principal architect for Microsoft working on Azure and SQL Server. I’ve had the chance to work with Bob quite...
2023-09-12
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 1 - Intro and prerequisites)
IntroductionOne integral part of modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines is the ability to create the underlying infrastructure as part of the pipeline in a consistent and...
2023-09-11 (first published: 2023-08-22)
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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...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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