Autonomous Driving Around London
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around London. I’ve been to London dozens of times, ridden and cabs and Ubers, and even...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-31)
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Blog Posts
Typing with Your Tongue Part 2: Voice Access
A few months ago, I wrote a post on how I use voice technology to continue working with my ALS condition. Since that post was written, Microsoft released a...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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Flyway Desktop PoC–Adding a Shadow and Baseline Script
In the last post, I created a baseline marker for Flyway in each database. This set the version in the dev and QA databases to v1. However, I also...
2023-04-12
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How to Change the Browser Used by SSMS for AAD Auth
Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
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Reasons Why SQL Servers Don’t Get Configured to Industry Best Practices
Throughout my career, I’ve worked on a LOT of different SQL Servers. Many that were installed and configured by application administrators, developers, vendors, and data professionals. I’ve seen servers...
2023-04-11
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Creating a Simple Graph in RedisGraph
I delivered a session on graph databases, and in it I used RedisGraph to show how you can work with graph data on that platform. This blog shows a...
2023-04-10
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New Job -> Week 2 -> Creating a Checklist
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life....
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 04-03-2023 & Easter
Hello Dear Reader! Hopefully you had a great weekend. This weekend was filled with gatherings. On Saturday we gathered with friends and had a really nice Game Night.... where...
2023-04-10
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Why i use a smaller docker image part I
What is Docker? Docker is a famous platform for building, shipping, and running container applications. What are containers? Containers are a way to package software in a portable and...
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-27)
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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