SQL Saturday Southampton Pre-con
It’s been a while since my last pre-con, in fact it’s been a while since my last SQL Saturday with...
2015-10-01
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Richard Douglas
Voting in the PASS Election 2015
Another year, another set of elections. It’s that time where those who care about their industry and the future of...
2015-09-17
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Career Progression
Deciding to change jobs can be one of the most difficult decisions you can make. At Dell I was part...
2015-08-07
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T-SQL Tuesday 66 Monitoring – Agent Alerts
Alerts have been around for as long as I can remember, so some time before breakfast. That probably means you...
2015-05-12
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My First Ever SQL Saturday Pre-Con
Like most people I have a bucket list of things to do before I depart for other things. However I...
2015-03-13
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50 Shades of Brown – The Series
That’s right I’m cashing in on the “50 Shades” franchise and twisting it to meet my own sordid needs to...
2015-03-03
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SQLBits XIV – Welcome to the UK
A number of you will have heard of SQLBits before. It’s Europe’s largest conference dedicated to SQL Server. What was...
2015-03-02
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(Ctrl+E) was pressed. Waiting for the second key of chord…
I first came across the error “(Ctrl+E) was pressed. Waiting for the second key of chord…” last year, these weird errors...
2015-01-08
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The Situation
On the 19th November I am going to be presenting two sessions for the Luxembourg PASS chapter at the...
2014-11-12 (first published: 2014-11-07)
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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Webcast 20141112
Today I have the honour of presenting a session for the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter. The great thing about...
2014-11-12
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Blogs
How to get the Active Directory user password policy values
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Recently I have had to troubleshoot quite a bit of SQL login issues and...
How do you use PowerShell toc check if an active directory user locked out, disabled etc.?
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If your organization uses a password policy (there are very good odds these days...
DBA Myths: The system sessions are the ones with a session_id 50 or less
Anecdotally any session_id that’s 50 or less is going to be a system session...
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