Daily Coping 27 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is take your time. Make space to just breathe and be still. An easy one today. I’m relaxing in Venice with my wife, and likely no...
2022-09-27
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Blog Posts
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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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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Blogs
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Multiple Sequence Values
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