Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East conference on cyber scams. How bad is it? Well, according to the Internet Crime Complaint...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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Redgate is offering 13 PASS Summit scholarships which not only includes the 3-day ticket to the main part of the PASS Summit, but also $1400 towards travel and accommodations....
2025-06-18 (first published: 2025-06-04)
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I didn't have these in my slides for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, but brought them up the web browser during the presentation. If you're looking at...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here on my blog. Here are the slides that I used for my Quantum Computing and...
2025-06-05
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The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference (East) runs from June 3-5, 2025, this year in Wilmington, NC. I'll be speaking on Thursday, June 5, from 11:30 AM -12:20...
2025-05-26
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I wrote not too long ago about planning out downtime, but I found a great article from the Harvard Business Review about the importance of doing so. The article...
2025-05-06
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Now that I’ve completed both TOGAF 9 tests, I am putting up a couple of quick posts on how I prepared for these Enterprise Architecture exams.
2025-05-05
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Now that I've completed both TOGAF 9 tests, I am putting up a couple of quick posts on how I prepared for these Enterprise Architecture exams.
2025-05-02
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If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-04-18 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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By Steve Jones
lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the...
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other...
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers