Daily Coping 12 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to forgive yourself when things go wrong. A theme of being better to myself, starting with last Thur and Fri. What’s gone wrong for me?...
2022-09-12
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Blog Posts
How to keep up with technology
(Side note: There is a “subscribe” button on the right side of my home page if you wish to receive my blogs updates via email as soon as they...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups
On September 29, 2022 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups. High Availability with previous versions of SQL Server was always complex: you had...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Daily Coping 9 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to let go of self-criticism and speak to yourself kindly. This tip follows on nicely from yesterday’s tip, just the other side of that one....
2022-09-09
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How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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SQL Saturday Baton Rogue Recap
Thank you to everyone who came out and saw me present at the SQL Saturday in Baton Rogue! It was a blast to see smiling faces and not be...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-23)
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Daily Coping 8 Sep 2022
Today’s tip is to notice the things you do well, however small. I think I have a lot of room for improvement, and it’s easy to self-criticize and find...
2022-09-08
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A simple lab to demonstrate the danger of NOLOCKs in INSERT statements
The READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level, which the NOLOCK table hint activates, is not to be trusted when it comes to writing data. You are not always protected by error...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-25)
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Daily Coping 7 Sep 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...
2022-09-07
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Thinking about data points and more …
(2022-Aug-28) Going on a family vacation road trip always fills me with a myriad of happy emotions and expectations to explore new places, see new people and essentially be led...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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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...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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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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