Daily Coping 20 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a different route today and see what you notice. I’ve had this tip come up a few times and each time I’ve enjoyed...
2023-01-20
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Blog Posts
New year, new role, and new book
Happy new year to everyone! As I enter my 9th year at Microsoft, I have switched roles, and am now an Industry Advisor in Federal Civilian, helping our Federal...
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-12)
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Daily Coping 19 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to switch off tech an hour before bedtime. I read at night often, so this is a challenging one. However, I decided to give this...
2023-01-19
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Connecting to PostgreSQL from Azure Data Studio
I’ve been doing a bit of work with PostgreSQL as part of my work with Redgate. PostgreSQL is a relational platform that is open source, free to use, available...
2023-01-18
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Daily Coping 17 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get moving. Ideally do something outside. Taking time to walk the dogs outside, heading to the dog park to get them, and me, some...
2023-01-18
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to say positive things to the people you meet today. In general, I don’t encounter a lot of people on any day, but I do...
2023-01-18
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Heading Back to VS Live in March 2023
I’m speaking at VS Live in March 2023 for the Las Vegas show. This time it’s at Planet Hollywood, which is a hotel a new place for me. I’m...
2023-01-18
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Help! My tempdb is full and I can’t access SQL Server!
I got a call saying the database server is inaccessible because tempdb is full. I get online and try to connect because I want to see the error for...
2023-01-18 (first published: 2023-01-06)
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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Error
I came across an issue with SSMS not loading properly recently. Regardless of launching from the start menu with or without administrator, SSMS would error out. Due to this...
2023-01-18 (first published: 2023-01-09)
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SQL Bits 2023
I’m honored to be heading back to SQL Bits 2023. I was selected to deliver one session, in the professional development track. With so many people submitting, I’m not...
2023-01-17
25 reads
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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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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