Book Review: Big Red - Voyage of a Trident Submarine
I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book...
2009-03-08
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Blog Posts
Building Reports, 2.0 Style
I’m getting my first taste of the new SQL Report Builder 2.0, and so far I’m enjoying the upgrade. Report...
2009-03-08
2,387 reads
MVP Summit 2009 -A Most Excellent Adventure
For many of us, one of the high points of being an MVP is attending the annual MVP Summit hosted...
2009-03-07
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Adobe Flash Player Update Available
There is an Adobe Flash Player available to address a security issue. The bulletin shows as being released February 24,...
2009-03-06
1,317 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having...
2009-03-06
12,923 reads
Database Mirroring FAQ: Why is my mirror database in a restoring state?
Question: Why is my mirror database in a restoring state?
This question was asked on a technical discussion group. This is...
2009-03-06
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I’m a PC and I’m an MVP!
At the recent MVP conference I attended, Microsoft filmed a promotion for their ad campaign. They had the entire MVP...
2009-03-06
651 reads
Learning the G1
One nice thing is that the G1 has a good browser, basically the same technology as the iPhone, so I...
2009-03-06
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Mutually Beneficial
I saw a great blog post from Brent Ozar about whether or not you are being treated fairly at work....
2009-03-06
533 reads
Three Operating System (Windows) patches due on Tuesday
Microsoft's advance security bulletin has come out and it looks like they are planning on releasing 3 security bulletins on...
2009-03-06
687 reads
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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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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