Daily Coping 3 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Data Cleanup for WordPress Tags without a Plugin

Over the years I’ve had this blog, I’ve added lots of tags. In 15 years and 4,600+ posts, you can guess that I’ve made some typos and mistakes. I’ve...

Offline Files

Daily Coping 31 Jul 2020

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Office Upgrade – A Secret Lab Chair

Last year I wandered over to Glenn Berry’s house for some lunch and a chat. While I got to see his home brewing setup and the latest in computer...

Querying Data Sources from a BDC

Removing Extended Properties

With the new labeling and classificiation options in SQL Server, there might be a need to remove these labels before deploying the database.

Research on the Changing Workplace

The workplace is certainly changing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve shares a few learnings from Microsoft's work from home experiment.

A Broken Streak

Steve is a bit sad that SQL Saturday Orlando isn't being held this year.

Azure DevOps Changing Build Notifications

I don’t do a lot of team builds in Azure DevOps, but I constantly use it for demos. However, I’m often experimenting with things and I break builds regularly....