Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
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Blog Posts
Are Your Secondary Availability Group Read Only Replicas Falling Behind? Are You Seeing PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN Waits?
Are you struggling with a laggy redo and a build up in the redo queue on your readonly secondaries? Are you suffering with high PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN waits? Then this magic...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-17)
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App
Here's how we used WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS to build our local development app, Studio.
2024-07-31
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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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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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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
degree of parallelism
Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers