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Michael Crichton wrote some near-future thrillers that were well thought out, prophetic, and a good read. Stuff about the potential uses and abuses of technology like genetic engineering and nanites.
August 19, 2020 at 1:22 pm
When I'm on a Zoom call, I'll first dial in using my iPhone and use that for voice, and then I'll dial in from my laptop and use that for...
August 17, 2020 at 1:21 pm
"Imagine that you're a researcher doing some data analysis for your company. You run some queries or load some data and then go home. The next day, you come in...
August 11, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Perhaps it's best for a cloud enabled application provider like Garmen to host their cloud data with a 3rd party provider like Azure or Amazon who specialize in that service....
August 10, 2020 at 4:10 pm
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Agreed and true, Eric. Just be sure to keep up the original skill sets in case some new job opportunity should require them. When things become too easy, we...
July 29, 2020 at 4:22 pm
Back in '80s and early '90s, conspiracy theorists or folks with extreme political views were ignored, and if they did something to cross the line, they were locked away -...
July 28, 2020 at 6:05 pm
From my admittedly aging perspective, I think sometimes the best 'revolution' is to go back and rethink and simplify things and make sure we are doing this the best,...
July 27, 2020 at 10:20 pm
What I haven't seen in this conversation is any control for uniqueness.
... How will you control uniqueness assuming that you find it incorrect to have a line item billed...
July 24, 2020 at 2:30 pm
Inserting, updating, or deleting rows in a table shouldn't be a routine function of a database sysadmin. So, perhaps the all-powerful SYSADMIN role itself should be deprecated or DML permission...
July 23, 2020 at 5:20 pm
In a traditional on-prem IT department, compute and storage are a capitalized expense (CapEx), so if $500,000 is spent on a shiny new data warehouse server, then management wants to...
June 18, 2020 at 6:17 pm
I'd like to take a week long hike in the Appalachian mountains this fall after it gets cool.
May 15, 2020 at 12:59 pm
The following article is an overview of how Azure Function can be spun up to bulk load .csv files in parallel from Blob Storage to Azure SQL, how Blob Triggers...
May 14, 2020 at 8:53 pm
That sounds like workflow - you can move files around in Blob Storage using Azure Data Factory, REST API, PowerShell, etc.
May 14, 2020 at 8:44 pm
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It's funny how people think that you don't need xp_CmdShell on managed systems like Azure.
Do they also not allow for OPENROWSET()?
You can OPENROWSET (or BULK INSERT) from CSV, Excel,...
May 14, 2020 at 4:54 pm
Azure SQL is still 99% the same familiar T-SQL we've been using for decades. Some features like Availability Groups and DBCC commands are gone, because they have been replaced with...
May 14, 2020 at 1:53 pm
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