The Easy Phone Restore

This is hardware week for me, with a new phone coming in the mail. This was a warranty replacement for...

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CONVERT and HEX

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Forcing Strong Passwords

Passwords are always a challenge, but are bad passwords the users' fault? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.

Should Production Databases Be in a VCS?

Steve Jones talks version control, but from the production perspective.

T-SQL Tuesday #75–Power BI

This month’s host is Jorge Seggara, the @sqlchicken, who works for Microsoft. A busy schedule caused a slight delay, so...

Quick Tests–Function Returns

I ran across a neat piece of code recently from Gail Shaw. She answered a question on returning the base...

Zero Downtime for 2016

Someone made a call to architect zero downtime for databases. Steve Jones isn't sure this is the best thing you could do.

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The Push to Upgrade from SQL Server 2005

There's a push to upgrade those SQL Server 2005 instances with support ending this April.