Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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Blog Posts
Advent of Code #2
This one gives you a 1000 rows of package dimensions. You calculate the surface area needed for wrapping paper, plus...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #3 – Part 1
Part 1 isn’t bad. Parse a string that has direction indicators and track each location you stop at. I’m trying...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #3 – Part 2
Adding to my solution for #3 part 2, I finally got it, but I paid the price for not adding...
2015-12-23
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Back to Basics: Why not parameterize?
I think sometimes those of us that have been doing database administration/development for a while take it for granted that...
2015-12-23
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CISL Roadmap
The year 2015 is coming to an end and I wanted to publish my currently planned roadmap for the CISL...
2015-12-23
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The Writeable Warm Standby
I saw a question recently that went like this: I get one full backup from FTP. I’ll get daily log...
2015-12-23 (first published: 2015-12-14)
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$10 to Support Wikipedia Too
I just donated $10 to Wikipedia. I use it and find it useful, so I don’t mind contributing so that...
2015-12-22
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Benefits from Data Lifecycle Management
I spend a lot of time talking about the need for automation within your databases, especially in support of development,...
2015-12-22 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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CISL 1.0.4 is released
I am glad to share that the latest version of CISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library 1.0.4 is finally released.
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2015-12-22
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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