Moving Through Five Years
An updated editorial. The five years are almost up for the prediction that IT departments would be eliminated. Read Steve Jones thoughts on where we are today.
2017-02-10
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2017-02-10
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Opening the PowerShell ISE from Explorer
This is a cool productivity trip, and one that I ran into by accident. I had heard that I could...
2017-02-09
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Why Devops? For Better Security
DevOps is supposed to help us build better software, faster. Steve Jones looks at one of the other benefits: security.
2017-02-09
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2017-02-08
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Let NonAdmins Get Logins
I saw a question recently about how to allow some users to see the logins on a server without being...
2017-02-08
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2017-02-07
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A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
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2017-02-06
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Get Your SQL Server Product Key with Powershell #dbatools
There are lots of tasks that are easily accomplished with bot h PowerShell and T-SQL.
Get-SqlServerKey is a command that...
2017-02-03
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
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Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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