My Toolbox - Everything
Foreword
Not everything in the general sense, but a tool called Everything by voidtools (Download link). Usually, I have to make this distinction when googling.
No matter how great is my...
2022-09-27
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Blog Posts
SQL Server In Place Upgrades
Good morning dear blog reader. Today’s episode is fresh from a great weekend with the family. It is always fun to go on a road trip with my wife...
2022-09-27
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Daily Coping 26 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to enjoy photos from a time with happy memories. On vacation today in Venice, so I ought to get more, but I’ve started to put...
2022-09-26
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Learning PostgreSQL: The Tools
In case you don’t know, I’ve been writing a series of articles over on Simple-Talk as I learn PostgreSQL. It’s all from the point of view of a SQL...
2022-09-26 (first published: 2022-08-01)
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T-SQL Tuesday #154 – SQL Server 2022
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Glenn Berry , and the subject he chose is “SQL Server 2022.” Microsoft has recently released the RC0 version of SQL...
2022-09-26 (first published: 2022-09-13)
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Daily Coping 23 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to notice what you are feeling without any judgment. Today I’m stressed. I have been traveling a bit and trying to work remotely from my...
2022-09-23
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Look Into Chocolatey
Just a suggestion, but I’d say you should look into Chocolatey. Let me explain why. Sabbatical For those who don’t know I was recently on a six-week sabbatical from...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-09-12)
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Snowflake – Where is the explain/execution plan?
Whatever your database background is you will have heard of an execution / explain plan. Snowflake is no different. Coming from a MS SQL background I was used to...
2022-09-23
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Using Snowflake – Hands On
Now let’s start the process of creating a snowflake account in the Azure Cloud. You can sign up for a free trial from here – https://signup.snowflake.com/ I am going...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Daily Coping 22 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to ask a trusted friend to tell you what strengths they see in you. On one hand this would seem easy. On the other, it...
2022-09-22
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers