How To Enlarge Your Columns With No Downtime
Let’s face it: column enlargement is a very sensitive topic. I get thousands of emails every month on this particular...
2017-11-15
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Blog Posts
Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016
For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
2,687 reads
Learning to Give Presentations Well (Part 2)
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In Part 1, I gave some advice from Toastmasters. We’ll return to the Toastmasters advice in Part 3....
2017-11-15
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
537 reads
Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
72 reads
Over-Indexing can hurt your SQL Server performance
Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked...
2017-11-15 (first published: 2017-11-05)
5,222 reads
PowerShell for fun (and profit?)
Let's have a liltle fun with PowerShell. Along with, I suppose, a couple of useful things and links.
The post PowerShell...
2017-11-15
386 reads
Presenting Azure Vs. Working With Azure
I have a real infatuation with Azure. I’m especially interested in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings in and...
2017-11-15
300 reads
Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a...
2017-11-15
279 reads
Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a...
2017-11-15
55 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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