Azure DevOps Agent Job Names

I’ve been working with some complex builds lately, multi-stage ones, and I’ve been annoyed by the Azure DevOps agent. If you’re like me, you might see this in Agent...

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Daily Coping 15 May 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...

Forum FAQ

With the implementation of the BBPress forums at SQLServerCentral, a few community members have asked how the forums work and how to best use them. This document will address a few of the items that have been asked by users. A list of questions is followed by the answers below. If you have additional questions […]

Taking Quarantine Holiday

What will you do about vacation during the pandemic? Steve gives his thoughts.

Daily Coping 14 May 2020

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...

Remote Sharing and Learning

Steve notes we all need to learn to communicate and share information better, especially while we are remote.

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Adding Analysis Services (SSAS) to your SQL Server instance–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a fairly simple task, but recently...

Counting the Groups in R