Daily Coping 14 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-14
7 reads
The Voice of the DBA
RIP Gareth Swanepoel and GoFundMe
Last week we lost another SQLFamily member. Gareth Swanepoel passed away on 8 Jan 2021. He was a fellow speaker, jolly fellow, and Microsoft PM. Across many years of...
2021-01-22 (first published: 2021-01-14)
798 reads
Security Updates for SQL Server Jan 2021–CVE-2021-1636
There was a security bulletin (CVE-2021-1636) for SQL Server, an elevation of Privilege vulnerability that could be exploited when an Extended Event session is running. SQL Server has released...
2021-01-20 (first published: 2021-01-13)
1,736 reads
Getting a New Remote Git Branch–#SQLNewBlogger
I was notified of a new PR at DataSaturdays, and I went to look at the changes. In this case, a lot of styling items in the code, which...
2021-01-29 (first published: 2021-01-13)
178 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #134–Taking a Break
I’m a day late for T-SQL Tuesday this month, literally because I was taking a break. Yesterday I took a holiday to go snowboarding with a friend. The weekend...
2021-01-13
83 reads
Daily Coping 13 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-13
5 reads
Daily Coping 12 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-12
8 reads
Career Goals for 2021
I’m a couple weeks late, but not nearly as late as 2020. In any case, I’m going to break these down as I did last year, but hopefully with...
2021-01-11
19 reads
Daily Coping 11 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-11
9 reads
Goal Progress–Wrapping up 2020
This is the final look at my goals for 2020 and how I did. I am writing this a few days after the end of the year, and examining...
2021-01-08
7 reads
Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
Issue with CPU Affinity Configuration on a SQL Server VM with 30 vCPUs
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers