Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids, I left a decade of consulting for a role...
2016-06-02
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Blog Posts
Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids,...
2016-06-02
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Another Recursive CTE–Doing Math
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-06-01
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Independent Azure Data Platform Instructors
The Azure Data Platform is taking off. I’m seeing more and more interest on the forums, at conferences and in...
2016-06-01
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Master_Views: master_objects, master_tables, etc
There is a highly useful system view called sys.master_files. If you’ve never encountered it before it returns a list of...
2016-06-01 (first published: 2016-05-23)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 01 – Custom Visuals Introduction)
Welcome to an exciting new FREE class that I am launching today! Over the next year (that’s right year!) I...
2016-06-01
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PowerShell – Deleting those files
Usually I prefer to use C# to delete files (as part of my retention policy for backups) as a stored...
2016-06-01
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PowerShell : Script Method Error -Method invocation failed because [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ServerRole] does not contain a method named ‘Script’.
I was working on generating scripts for logins, users and server roles and I could able to to generate scripts...
2016-06-01
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Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage was over. The big deal wasn’t that it didn’t...
2016-06-01
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Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage...
2016-06-01
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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