SSMS Keyboard Shortcut Fun
Andrea Allred (@RoyalSQL) just gave her SQL tips and tricks session at SQL Saturday Salt Lake City, and a great time was had by all! I learned some things...
2019-08-03
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Jen McCown
Fun with PowerShell: I made a game
So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other...
2018-11-19
215 reads
Live blog: Women in Technology lunch at #PASSSummit #passwit
11:48am This will be starting shortly! We’re stuffing our faces, first. Today’s featured speaker is Lauri Bingham, Director of Technology Engineering...
2018-11-08
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SQL work-vacation, Thursday! (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello yet again! I’ve been writing about our time this week in Seattle, for the PASS Summit. Saturday, I wrote that we’re here...
2018-11-08
192 reads
SQL work-vacation, Monday (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello again! Sunday, I wrote that we’re here in Seattle for the PASS Summit, and that it’s my tenth year. AND that...
2018-11-05
192 reads
SQL work-vacation, T-2 days (#Workation #PASSSummit)
We are at PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle, and I will write a bit about each day I'm here, just...
2018-11-04
202 reads
Regular Expressions: tagging expressions
I re-discovered something very cool while using RegEx in SSMS today: tagging expressions and referencing them in the same line! I’ll take...
2018-10-15
380 reads
sqlhelp: limit the x-axis of a geometry line graph
I have a #sqlhelp question that requires some code. So hey, blog post time! TL;DR: the geometry::STGeomFromText graph provides too wide...
2018-09-26
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More PowerShell for fun (and profit) – filter files by date
PowerShell provides an easy way to search for and/or delete just the files you want. Let's look at navigating in...
2018-09-24
737 reads
All about PASS Summit 2018
Here are the things you must/should probably know about PASS Summit 2018, as told by me. First Timers Read this...
2018-09-19
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
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Car Update: August 2026
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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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