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2020 Year in Review

Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...

2021-01-04

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Shell to Script Shortcut

I’ve been meaning to write something this post for a while but the stars have aligned this week. Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) published a post about making a...

2020-10-21

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Write It Down!

Recently I set up a new process to pull data out of a MySQL database and into SQL Server. Pretty standard ETL stuff, but it’s the organization’s first time...

2020-10-16

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Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption

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Why your data still can’t answer a simple question 

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T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference

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I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences IV

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?

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