Just one more thing, an essay on troubleshooting
Over the weekend I watched — for the first time in my life — an episode of the long-running ABC and NBC police show Columbo, starring Peter Falk. I...
2022-04-20
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Over the weekend I watched — for the first time in my life — an episode of the long-running ABC and NBC police show Columbo, starring Peter Falk. I...
2022-04-20
47 reads
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, like the built-in package managers on Linux, and third-party ones on macOS like Homebrew and MacPorts. The idea is this: when you’re...
2022-04-13
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For this week, here is a short post about reinventing the wheel. An interesting conversation happened on Twitter where Dave Dustin asked: “Does anybody have an example of using...
2022-04-06
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Last week saw the second month of my employment at Microsoft. I admit that I’m enjoying my job, and I can’t deny that the reduced amount of time I’ve...
2022-03-30
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I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft Press (Pearson) has agreed to let us do another Inside Out book this year. This news is so fresh I haven’t even...
2022-03-23
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I wrote a post a couple weeks ago about not changing port 1433 for security reasons. I received this comment, which is not visible on that page because it...
2022-03-16
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At my new day job, one of the things we want to do is migrate a portion of a really large Git repository (over 20GB) which I’ll call LargeRepo,...
2022-03-09
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Since we’re on a recent theme of revising long-held best practices that are not, here’s a timely one for you: Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security...
2022-03-02
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A short post this week. While I was helping some friends recently, we experienced a curious thing where as soon as an application was started up, it was immediately...
2022-02-23
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Last year I wrote a series of posts about accessibility as it relates to presentations, and one aspect which I didn’t cover is within the documents themselves. We create...
2022-02-16
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By Steve Jones
I think we might have forgotten this a bit, but on one of the...
By Brian Kelley
I refresh my test SQL Servers at least monthly with a fresh VM. Setting...
By Chris Yates
Embracing Total Responsibility In every organization there comes a moment when teams must choose...
We are using MySQL version 5.6 in our Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. We...
We have created a parent table, child table & Audit log table in SQL...
I run this command on my SQL Server 2022 database:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON;What is the default data retention period? See possible answers