Activate Conference 2018: Three days of Tech Learning
Tomorrow I'll be giving two workshops at the super-slick-brandedActivate Conference 2018 in Baton Rouge at the Louisiana Technology Park, a...
2018-02-21
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"What's New in SQL 2017?" at the Baton Rouge SQL Server UG meeting
We had a great joint meeting tonight of the Baton Rouge SQL and .NET User Groups at the Louisiana Tech...
2018-02-15
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SQL Server on TLS 1.2: Checklist to disabling TLS 1.1 and 1.0
A common finding in security audits these days is the failure to conduct all communications via TLS 1.2. (Correspondingly, a...
2018-01-16 (first published: 2018-01-09)
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SQL Server on TLS 1.2: XEvent session to catch TLS in use
How can you tell what version of TLS is currently used for client connections? Unfortunately there isn't a handy queryable column...
2018-01-09
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Our SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out fun author survey
I was honored to be on the author team of the new SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out book by...
2017-12-20
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Start/Stop Group of Azure RM VM's
For testlab purposes, I often have a group of Azure VMs to manually spin up/spin down at once. I've had...
2017-12-19
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Attracting Non-Technical Speakers to Your SQLSat Events
Fellow DBA and community leader Peter Shore of the Columbus SQL PASS UG and SQLSat Columbus OH asked me via Twitter, "What is the...
2017-12-04
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SQLSat Organizers and UG Leaders Meetings at PASS Summit - Tips and Tricks notes
At the SQLSat Organizers and UG Leaders Meetings at PASS Summit meetings last week, we were given an opportunity to share...
2017-11-06
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The #SQLSAT Speaker Goodie Bag
Last summer, I heard about an awesome idea for speaker gifts at SQLSat Pensacola 2017 from organizer Karla Landrum and...
2017-10-29
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VS Code: PowerShell and focusConsoleOnExecute
If you're used to the behavior of SSMS or PowerShell ISE where upon executing code in the script panel, your...
2017-10-03
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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