Looking forward to speaking to one of our new home turf's data organizations, the Inland Northwest Data Professionals Association. My spouse Christine and I will be presenting a talk we're...
2021-04-08
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I'll be presenting at Certification Saturday 2021 this weekend! I'll be contributing my talk on How to "Think Like a Certification Exam" at 3pmGMT/8amPT.
Microsoft is offering any one certification exam for...
2021-04-08
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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...
2021-04-08
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One story I hear over and over goes like this: I tried setting up Extended Events, but then I saw the output was XML so I stopped. Look, I...
2021-04-08 (first published: 2021-03-29)
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I just found out that VMware has updated their in-guest time synchronization with the 7.0 Update 1 release. Previously, we had to manually disable some of the advanced time...
2021-04-08 (first published: 2021-04-01)
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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...
2021-04-07
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This is part five in a five part series this week, Moving into Consulting 101.
In the business consulting system, the clients are served by two separate yet equally important groups....
2021-04-07 (first published: 2021-03-26)
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The last time I presented a session was at the final PASS Summit in November 2020, so it is time to get back on the virtual conference trail again....
2021-04-07
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In this post we look at Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in SQL Server. What it is - and how it works.
2021-04-07 (first published: 2021-03-29)
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Just a little over a year ago, I started posting a “Good Morning!” tweet on Twitter every work day. I’ve kept it up for over a year and I’d...
2021-04-06
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I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance...
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless)...
Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI SQL Server 2025 is an upcoming...
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First time here...hoping I can find some direction and answers so I can devise...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers