Stress Thoughts-Part 7
I’m going to finish up my thoughts on stress by talking about the philosophy I’ve evolved, some of the tricks...
2012-04-04
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Blog Posts
The evolving role of the database professional
The role of the database professional is quickly evolving to conform with the ever changing demands of the business world....
2012-04-04
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Toshiba Satellite C655-S5503 Review
If you are “in computers” according to your family and friends, you are typically expected to provide lifetime, free tech...
2012-04-04
1,506 reads
What’s stopping you?
I mentioned earlier this week that I’m working on a new presentation for SQLSaturday #119 next month. The talk revolves...
2012-04-04
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Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #4: Executing an Oracle Stored Proc with IN Parameters in SSIS Execute SQL Task
The first tip I published discussed how to execute an Oracle procedure with no parameters. In this tip, I will...
2012-04-03
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Powershell – Validating an IP Address
A task that I have had to do several times over the years is determine if an IP Address string...
2012-04-03
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SQL SERVER Replication – Troubleshooting Steps for Beginners
Few days back there was a replication issue in one of the QA servers. Since the DBA was out of...
2012-04-03 (first published: 2012-03-26)
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The first blog post….
Daunting! By way of introduction, I’m Mat This blog is mostly for myself, to document what I know and maybe...
2012-04-03
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Why an employer should never ask about accessing your Facebook page
There's a brilliant piece of work posted as a fictitious resignation letter that gives some scenarios as to why an employer could...
2012-04-03
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Backup script skipping databases – and the fix!
A real head-scratcher
I’ve been using my RYO Maintenance scripts for a little while now, and they’ve been working great. Almost....
2012-04-02 (first published: 2012-03-26)
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
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Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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