Data Privacy – Playing your part
Tuesday 28th January 2020 was “Data Privacy Day 2020” Some may refer to this as Data Protection Day, but it is really just a day to draw attention to...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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measure twice, cut once.
2020-02-02
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Is NoSQL still a thing?
G’day, Looking back, perhaps one of the (many) mistakes that I’ve made in my career was to initially ignore the N0SQL movement. I’ve focused my career on Relational Database...
2020-01-27
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Moving to a Modern Microsoft Platform
Melbourne Event – Monday 17th June 2019 (Free – including lunch and prizes) PASS, in conjunction with Microsoft, Intel and community leaders are offering free training on Moving to...
2019-06-06
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Speaking at Events
G’day, I recently got the opportunity to speak at the “PASS Marathon, The New World of Data Privacy”. I had not spoken at a virtually event for quite some...
2019-05-28
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Generating Insert Statements
G’day,
I been asked a few times lately the best way to generate INSERT statements.
I’d always replied to use SSMS.
I know...
2020-03-03 (first published: 2019-02-02)
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Azure Notebooks – a nice little tool.
Gday,
I’ve been playing with Azure notebooks lately and have found them invaluable as
A teaching aidA test sandboxI’ve been using Python...
2019-01-31
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T-SQL Tuesday #109 – Mentors and Mentees
G’day again,
So, it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the blog party
started by Adam Machanic (
This time we're talking about people...
2018-12-11
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TSQL Tuesday #108 – Learning to Learn
G’day,
One attribute that I think is more relevant today than ever is to have a broad base of skills with...
2018-11-15
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A lack of foreign keys – a bad culture example.
G’day,
One of the things that I’ve been seeing more often than I would like to lately is large databases with...
2020-03-03 (first published: 2018-10-28)
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...