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
What does the Machine Learning process look like?
By damianwidera
This is the second article in the Machine Learning area. I have explained a...
Azure Cosmos DB: real-time data movement using Change Feed and Azure Functions
In this article, we will focus on creating a data pipeline to ETL (Extract,...
Quick 6 month check – how are those learning goals going…?
By HamishWatson
So in January I wrote a blog post on some goals I had this...
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DB Snapshot on TDE Enabled Database
Dear All, I have a DB on which TDE is enabled. When trying to...
Installing SQL 2017 Error
I am trying to install SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition. It is an Iso...
Select n records in table X from a field on table Y
Hi, hope someone can help with this. I've the table gifts_to_give: Id_give number_of_gifts name ...
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