PowerShell Whitepaper Published
My first whitepaper for Microsoft, Understanding and Using PowerShell Support in SQL Server 2008 has been published. It was a...
2009-06-13
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Blog Posts
Answers to Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
Last week I wrote a set of Advanced SSIS Interview Questions. Here are the answers I came up for these. ...
2009-06-12
52,868 reads
Mentors and Perspective
We had my organization's semi-annual combined IT and financial meeting this morning. At the end of these meetings awards and...
2009-06-12
669 reads
Passive Influence
I study karate on a regular basis, and over the years I've practiced a number of different martial arts, most...
2009-06-12
688 reads
A $200 Knife
While I was in Pensacola last weekend, I sat next to Andy Warren and I was telling him about getting...
2009-06-11
698 reads
Book Review: American Promethius: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
I picked up a copy of this from the local library after reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer...
2009-06-11
605 reads
Book Review: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ($14 @ Amazon) was a good book, enjoyed reading it. Some interesting tidbits...
2009-06-11
356 reads
Call for Speakers and Registration for SQLSaturday #17 in Baton Rouge on August 1, 2009
Patrick Leblanc is the event lead for SQLSaturday #17 coming up soon on August 1st. Patrick emailed me just a...
2009-06-11
541 reads
Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
834 reads
Tagged: The Desert Island Scenario
I was tagged by Scary DBA and recent MVP awardee Grant Fritchey with the latest viral question:
“So You’re On A...
2009-06-11
1,348 reads
Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Forums
PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Working Better Under Pressure
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Identities and Sequences V
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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