Restoring a Database in Azure
One of the many small things you don’t have to worry about any more when working with Azure SQL Database...
2016-01-18 (first published: 2016-01-11)
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday Melbourne (#464) – 20 Feb 2016
For those not aware SQL Saturday is coming to Melbourne on Sat 20 Feb 2016. SQL Saturday is an excellent free learning resource for all things SQL Server – all costs are...
2016-01-18
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SQL Saturday Melbourne (#464) – 20 Feb 2016
For those not aware SQL Saturday is coming to Melbourne on Sat 20 Feb 2016.
SQL Saturday is an excellent free learning...
2016-01-18
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SQLSaturday Austin – Jan 30th
I will be speaking with other SQL Server experts for SQLSaturday #461 in Austin on Jan 30th, 2016. This is...
2016-01-18
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To the page and back again
To the page
It’s not one of those things you have to do frequently but every now and again you need...
2016-01-18
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SQL From South West to Scotland : SQLSaturdays #496 & #502
I’m happy, honoured and humbled to be able to say that I will be presenting pre-cons and both SQL Saturday...
2016-01-17
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Operating System Error 995
Operating System Error Message
Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State:1
BackupMedium::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device ‘VDI_ DeviceID ‘. Operating system error 995...
2016-01-16
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Book Review 2015
It’s been a few years since I wrote a review of books I’ve read, so this isn’t going to list...
2016-01-15 (first published: 2016-01-05)
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Chips and Margaritas at SQL Saturday #461
It was a few years back that my wife and I planned a trip to the Austin City Lights music...
2016-01-15
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Flexibility of T-SQL for designing user defined functions
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for...
2016-01-15
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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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