What Stephen King Taught Me About Data Storytelling
I’ve been a fan of macabre fiction writer Stephen King since I first picked up The Dark Half sometime in the early 1990s. Since then I’ve read dozens of...
2022-03-20
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 18 Mar 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...
2022-03-18
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Reading more efficiently
In IT, we have to read a lot. For instance, understanding how to set something in Azure or Okta or vSphere may mean we are consuming 5 or more...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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T-SQL Tuesday 148: Finding and keeping a consistent audience, and what works
This months’ T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Rie Merrit (t|b) as part of Azure Community Group lead. Her call is to pick one or two things that...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-08)
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Daily Coping 17 Mar 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...
2022-03-17
10 reads
Scripting with a temp stored procedure
A few years back I learned about temporary stored procedures from a Kendra Little (blog|twitter) blog post. At the time ... Continue reading
2022-03-17
19 reads
The Cloud or On-Premise – Is it a go or no go?
I have seen this question many a time that people have asked “The Cloud or On-Premise – is it a go or no go?”. This is something that has...
2022-03-17
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Daily Coping 16 Mar 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...
2022-03-16
14 reads
Power BI Dashboards
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-16
144 reads
Recipe 4: Sending Alerts via Email
Welcome to the latest recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-16 (first published: 2022-02-25)
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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