Why I Practice Presentations
I had a new presentation to give this week at IT/DevConnections. This is a paid for conference, and I want...
2016-10-13
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Blog Posts
You don't need any Training? OK...I believe you.
This week's Super duper IT training offers are in:
If you see any that take your fancy let me know. Drop...
2016-10-13
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An Update on My 2012 Mac Air
Typically I want to get 3 years out of a laptop to amortize spending on a premium grade machine. I’m...
2016-10-12
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Check Database Server Workload - Batches/ Sec
Today's post is about a simple but very useful query.
One of the basic things one needs to check is the...
2016-10-12
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Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
If you need to do code comparison on a lot of files in Visual Studio, I ran across an extension...
2016-10-12
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Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
Update: 2017-07-14
Still find this incredibly awesome! Developer just updated for Visual Studio 2017 after a lot of hard work. Github...
2016-10-12
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Power BI Desktop hosted on premises with SSRS 2016
UPDATE 2016-10-27: the preview is available as a VM in the Azure Marketplace. More information can be found on the...
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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So Long, Farewell, I Hate to Say Goodbye
The Sound of Music is one of my all time favorite movies. It reminds me of some great times with...
2016-10-12
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SQL Live Health Check - part 3 - permission requirements and the rest
This is the last part of the series, where I discuss about the monitoring application that I build. If you...
2016-10-12
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Stretch Databases in 60 seconds
SQL Server 2016 introduces Stretch Databases, a beautiful feature that by itself makes migrating to SQL 2016 worth it. What is it? A stretch database is basically a database...
2016-10-12
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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