Announcing PSDay.UK – Whats a PSDay?
On Thursday evening I attended the joint London WinOps and PowerShell User Group. It was an excellent evening with two...
2017-07-24
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Blog Posts
Calculating Travel Distance/Time in Power BI using Bing Map API
[2017-July-24] Map visualization in Power BI has drawn many data professionals into a field of ?reating visual data stories with...
2017-07-24
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Database Fundamentals #6: Create a Table with the SSMS GUI
The whole idea behind databases is to store information, data, in order to look at it later. The place where...
2017-07-24
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Default SQL Agent Reports – Top Jobs
Looking at what a job has been doing is important. Particularly if something is going wrong. Now there are several...
2017-07-24
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FizzBuzz–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-07-24
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Geek Sync on Wednesday: Taking Control of Your Organization’s SQL Server Sprawl
This Wednesday, July 26th, at 12 PM EDT, I’ll be giving a presentation through Idera’s Geek Sync series. You will...
2017-07-24
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Installing SQL Server: Video Tutorial
In this video I talk you through installing SQL Server 2017 RC1 on Windows Server 2016 virtual machine. It’s a...
2017-07-24
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Monday Coffee: SQL Services in Containers
I had an interesting question on twitter last week when I published my post on Running Linux Container on Windows:...
2017-07-24
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Point Counterpoint: Why Virtualize a SQL Server?
I get asked all the time – “why virtualize SQL Server if I’m content with my physical servers today?” The normal...
2017-07-24 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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RegEx in SQL Server for searching text
As a database developer or DBA, or even software developer, you must have met up with the difficulties of finding some strings/sub-strings in the text columns. In such situations,...
2017-07-24
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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