Accessibility in your PowerPoint slide deck
This post is part of the series I kicked off here. You can read my post about captions here. Let’s talk about slides! Many of us are familiar with...
2021-07-28
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Randolph West
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Join me at the EightKB virtual conference on 28 July 2021
Next week on Wednesday 28 July 2021, I will be presenting a brand-new session titled “How SQL Server stores that data type” for the free EightKB virtual conference. I’ve...
2021-07-21
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Accessibility after the fact: closed captions for videos
My user group, the Calgary Data User Group, has been recording videos since April of this year, so at the time of this writing we have just two videos...
2021-07-14
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On accessibility in our community
Today I want to write about the community that brought us all together. The community that got this very website on your radar. The community that got many of...
2021-07-07
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #015: Aggregations
In early 2011 Jes Borland invited us to write about aggregations: I want to hear how you solved business problems with aggregate functions. I want to see your cool...
2021-06-30
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A summary of new features in Azure SQL Database
It has been some time since I last wrote about Azure SQL Database. Although it has been more than three years since SQL Server 2017 was released, Microsoft have...
2021-06-23
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How SQL Server stores data types: DATETIMEOFFSET
If you’d like to check out the previous instalment in this series on storing dates and times, click here. I avoided mentioning this data type because I didn’t think...
2021-06-16
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Things to check when restoring a database
Whenever I restore a database — especially one I obtained outside of my regular environment (for example a customer database, a development database, or even a sample database like...
2021-06-09
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The curse of the blank page
Last week I wrote about recovering data after an unplanned outage, and this week I’m contemplating a thing that would be considered bad in those circumstances as well as...
2021-06-02
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A quick primer on binary and hexadecimal
A few years ago, I wrote that a CPU is “a hot mess of on-off switches.” There’s more to it than that when you get into the weeds of...
2021-05-31 (first published: 2021-05-19)
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Blogs
Data Modeling at your fingertips
By Rayis Imayev
(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema...
How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
By John
You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database...
Daily Coping 30 Jul 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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Migrate SQL Sever 2012 Database To Server 2014 and Subsequent Versions
Hi Guys, I have an SQL Server 2012 Express database that I would like...
Deploying SQL Server Automatically
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Setting data compression on a database or even server level possible?
I well realize data compression is a subject to a few variables, such as...
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