Blog Posts

2020 Advent of Code – Day 5

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 5. I’m going to do this...

2021-05-17

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All jobs that ran during a given time frame.

• by Kenneth Fisher

• SQLStudies

Short post today. Simple query that will tell you every job that ran between two datetime stamps. Note: this of ... Continue reading

2021-05-17 (first published: 2021-05-06)

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Creating a generic (template) pipeline in Azure Data Factory to send email messages with attached files from Azure Storage account

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2021-May-17) It took some time to come up with a final title for this blog post in my attempt to encapsulate its several major ideas: Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipeline,...

2021-05-17

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Daily Coping 17 May 2021

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

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...

2021-05-17

Encryption in SQL Server #1 – Column Level Encryption

• by davidfowler-42596

• SQL Undercover

For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...

2021-05-17

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One-click Portfolio Designs, Instant PDF Embeds, and More Improvements to the Block Editor

• by todd-32417

• Todd Kleinhans

We have some exciting new block editor updates to share with you today including fresh collection of Portfolio block patterns, a new and improved way to embed a preview...

2021-05-17

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Powershell Practice with a War Game

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I attended part of the recent PowerShell + DevOps summit, and one of the sessions was from Fernando Tomlinson (@wired_pulse and @underthewire_ps) on incident response. He talked about a number...

2021-05-17 (first published: 2021-05-05)

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Running a SQL Server container from scratch

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I’ve been interested (obsessed?) with running SQL Server in containers for a while now, ever since I saw how quick and easy it was to spin one up. That...

2021-05-17

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Tech Field Day 23 Recap

• by kleegeek

• Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek

April 21 to 23 saw a new milestone for me. I was a new delegate for the 23rd Tech Field Day! It’s an absolute honor and thrill to be...

2021-05-17

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What’s new with Power BI?

• by James-Serra

• James Serra's Blog

At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021, a ton of new features for Power BI where announced. Below is my list of top ten new features, but there were...

2021-05-17

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