A New MVP Led Training Initiative – Cloud Formations
Hello Readers – I wanted to make sure those who follow my blog have heard about the new MVP led training initiative started by Paul Andrew (@mrpaulandrew). It’s called...
2022-07-04
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 4 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-04
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Shutting down nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service
A while back I wrote a post on Adjusting Pod Eviction Timings in Kubernetes. To test the changes made in that post I had to shut down nodes in...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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T-SQL Tuesday 151 Round up: Coding Standards
I received a great collection of blog posts in response to my T-SQL Tuesday 151 – asking people to write on T-SQL Coding Standards. Rob Farley (t|b) is of...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-17)
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Goal Progress for June 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. Ugh, June was no bueno for life goals. In May,...
2022-07-02
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Daily Coping 1 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-01
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Refreshing Tables in Data Masker
Data Masker for SQL Server is a product that helps to change data for compliance purposes. It works well, but it isn’t intuitive in a few ways. We bought...
2022-07-01 (first published: 2022-06-13)
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Setting up MinIO for SQL Server 2022 s3 Object Storage Integration
Introduction In this post, I will walk you through how to set up MinIO, so you can use it to work with SQL Server 2022’s s3 object integrations. Working...
2022-07-01 (first published: 2022-06-10)
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Updates from Coping Tips
I’ve written a lot of coping tips now. Over two years worth (Mon-Fri) since the pandemic began. It’s become an interesting thing to do on a regular basis, making...
2022-07-01
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Using Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 2
Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out first. There are many ways to this. I start with using the Cfs secret page...
2022-07-01
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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...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
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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