Azure Kubernetes Service – Handy Commands
Just some handy commands to use via kubectl. I found these useful for various reasons so hopefully you will too. Overview of our nodes. Pod information, remember from my...
2021-08-11
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Blog Posts
Connecting to Azure Blobs in Power BI
The step-by-step process below walks through connecting to data housed in Azure Blob Storage from Power BI using a SAS token. There are many ways to grab your data...
2021-08-11 (first published: 2021-07-26)
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Daily Coping 11 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-11
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Join me on 13 August 2021 for Dativerse
This coming Friday the 13th (August 2021) is the first ever Dativerse virtual conference, hosted by our DataGrillen friends William and Benjamin. According to their site: We try to...
2021-08-11
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Last Non-NULL Date in SQL Server
The simplest of requests are often the most difficult to execute. For example, a finance team needs to know every time a customer did not invoice for 90 days...
2021-08-11
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Using Variables in Power Automate Desktop
In this video Devin continues building on a previously created Power Automate Desktop Flow design to show how to leverage variables to make solutions dynamic.
2021-08-11 (first published: 2021-07-20)
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Daily Coping 10 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-10
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Faster, More Flexible Editing of Your Sidebars, Headers, and Footers: Blocks for Widgets
Great news: the block editor you’re familiar with in pages and posts is now part of the widgets editor.
2021-08-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #141 Work/Life Balance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by TJay Belt (@tjaybelt). I find this month’s topic, balancing work and life, intriguing, and after a hiatus of non-blogging, I’m happy that...
2021-08-10
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Creating SQL Databases in AKS with PVC – Part 2
Last week I created the below with a dummy database and is something that I will do against SQL server but this time that has a persistent volume claim....
2021-08-09
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Blogs
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...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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