Speaking Engagements for Fall 2022
The summer holiday is almost over, and this means conference season will be back in full swing again. I’ll be speaking at a couple of events in the second...
2022-08-23
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Blog Posts
AWS RDS Backups
One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service when it comes to data is the fact that you get RDS backups, built in. Go...
2022-08-22
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Azure DevOps: Deploying Power BI reports with a parameterized gateway-based Data Source
(2022-Aug-08) You have developed your Power BI report, by connecting one or more sourcing datasets, building your data model and enriching it with interactive and engaging visualizations. Now you are...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Daily Coping 22 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-22
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: Object Changes
I hear this one all the time: How do I find out who implemented object changes? I also get: Can I see the query that caused object changes? Let’s...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Daily Coping 19 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-19
11 reads
Data Relay Speaker Diversity and Feeling Included
Back in 2018, wow four years ago, I presented at all five stops of Data Relay and rode the bus. For those that don’t know
The post Data Relay Speaker...
2022-08-19 (first published: 2022-07-28)
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Solar Production After 5 Months in Power BI
I’ve been tracking my usage and comparing that with the estimates for my solar power system. I wrote about the database design and tracking the usage and some of...
2022-08-19 (first published: 2022-08-03)
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Creating TAIL on Windows for Text Files
UPDATE: Article changed based on the comment from Mr. Sewell. I wrote recently about making a HEAD utility to find the top few lines from a text file. I...
2022-08-18 (first published: 2022-08-17)
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Daily Coping 18 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-18
10 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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