sql2xls goes cross-platform

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

Last year I released sql2xls, a free open-source tool which lets you throw a bunch of scripts into a folder, run them automatically against SQL Server and get the...

2020-03-25

2 reads

On the continuity of business

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

With entire countries shutting their borders, and people being forced to stay home and isolate themselves for as long as possible while health departments ramp up to handle this...

2020-03-18

Join me in Victoria this Saturday

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

I will be presenting a new session, “Database administration through the ages,” at SQL Saturday #950 in Victoria this coming weekend. This is one of my favourite SQL Saturdays...

2020-03-11

2 reads

Deprecated and discontinued features in SQL Server

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

My co-authors and I recently wrapped up the book SQL Server 2019 Administration Inside Out, which should be hitting the shelves in the next week or two. At the...

2020-03-04

77 reads

Join me at SQLBits 2020

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

The SQLBits conference is taking place in London again this year, between March 31st and April 4th, and I’ll be there. I will not be presenting this year, but...

2020-02-26

4 reads

Disaster recovery, tools edition

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

I just completed a chapter for another book where I spoke about the Recovery Point Objective (how much data you are prepared to lose) and Recovery Time Objective (how...

2020-02-19

25 reads

Dealing with rejection

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

“Dear speaker This serves as notice that your session submission was not selected for our upcoming event. We had a lot of sessions to sort through, and unfortunately there...

2020-02-12

25 reads

I’m a DBA. Do I really need to know Kubernetes?

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

Welcome to February 2020. It’s the second month of the year 2020! I remember sitting at a server with SQL Server 6.5 installed on it, worrying about the Y2K...

2020-02-05

384 reads

What is a strong password anyway?

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

Background Fellow Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt (blog | Twitter) has been operating the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) for a number of years now. For the record, “pwned” is...

2020-01-29

175 reads

My home office setup

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

That aging hippie (he likes Apple products and has a goatee) known as Brent Ozar wrote a post recently about his home office studio setup, with a big focus...

2020-01-22

46 reads