Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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Blog Posts
Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity
The short answer is: You’ll be eligible for a piece of the pie, plus increased traffic to your website.
2024-07-30
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Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-23)
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DevOps Days Minneapolis
Once again, I’m off to a conference next week. This time it is DevOps Days Minneapolis. I haven’t been to a DevOps Days event, though I always enjoy DevOps...
2024-07-29
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The Importance of Patch Management to Avoid Downtime
A recent Microsoft outage caused by a bad patch pushed out to Windows instances managed by CrowdStrike has thrown a spotlight on the critical importance of effective patch management....
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024–Resources
For my talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024, here are the resources. Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx GitHub: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime If you have questions, reach out.
2024-07-27
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A New Word: Vicarous
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were in your shoes, eager to watch another actor put their own spin on the character...
2024-07-26
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Automattic for Agencies x Endoh Collaborative: A Match Made in WordPress Heaven
Endoh Collaborative harnesses the power of Automattic for Agencies to spend more time on their clients.
2024-07-26
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MVP No more, But It’s OK
Embracing Limitations: Finding Strength and Purpose in Hard Times For four years, I was honored to receive the MVP award for my work in the
The post MVP No more,...
2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice for Past Steve
I almost missed this month, so this is also a good #SQLNewBlogger post. I thought about it for a few minutes as I ate breakfast at my desk and...
2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-09)
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Blogs
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
Forums
Form W-4 Updates 2026: What Employers and Employees Need to Know
Keeping up with Form W-4 updates doesn’t have to be complicated. In this practical...
Level 28: DAX Text Functions: The DAX Extract & Modify Functions: LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID(), REPLACE(), SUBSTITUTE()
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Creating JSON I
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers