Our Ginger Slides’ Primer – Thinking To Move Your Data From On-Premise SQL Server to AWS DynamoDB?
The benefits of running databases in the AWS are compelling but how do you get your data there? In this...
2017-11-14
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AWS – No Password? No Problem! Generating Redshift Credentials via IAM Authentication
I know we are living in a world where phones and other devices with advanced biometric authentication have been increasingly...
2017-11-10
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AWS – Move Data from HDFS to S3
In the big-data ecosystem, it is often necessary to move the data from Hadoop file system to external storage containers...
2017-11-06
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Mongodb – How to Iteratively Access Data Across all Databases and Collections
With some applications, there may be a need to pull data from other database instances, or from other databases within...
2017-07-06
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Linux – How to generate and configure SSH Key authentication to connect to a remote system
Using SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a remote computer when compared to password authentication, and today...
2016-12-10
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Linux – How to Change Group and User Ownership of a Directory – using chown & chgrp
In this post, let’s learn how to use chgrp and chown commands to change group and user ownership of a...
2016-12-07
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SQLServerZest is now DataGinger!
We are happy to announce the birth of DataGinger. Starting today we officially re-branded ourselves as DataGinger.com (previously SQLServerZest.com). The...
2016-07-15
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PowerShell – Disk Space Monitoring and Early Warning Reports
Disk space is one of those things that frequently runs out of space no matter how much you bump it...
2016-06-09
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SQL Server – Configuring custom Load Balancing in SQL Server 2012 and 2014 using Read-Only Routing
Starting with SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn Availability Groups provided group level high availability for any number of databases for multiple...
2015-10-01
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SQL Server – Dynamically Generate Scripts for Configuring Read-Only Routing URLs and Lists
Read-only routing refers to the ability of SQL Server to route incoming read-intent connection requests, which are directed to an...
2015-10-01
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Blogs
Be careful with table updates
The dire warning in the subject line is not meant to scare you. Rather,...
Daily Coping 1 Dec 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Building a pacemaker cluster to deploy a SQL Server availability group in Azure
There are new Ubuntu Pro 20.04 images available in the Azure marketplace with SQL...
Forums
Help with Column Visibility Expressions
I have a parameter in my report labeled as PaySource. PaySource has 3 values...
SQL Server and CloudStrike
Has anyone had issues with CloudStrike Anti-Virus on their SQL Servers? I've had a...
Table Date field format
I created a date field [Datte] in SQL v2008. I then link with MS...
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