Management Article Posted on SSC
I wrote Management because we typically get it so wrong in our line of work. Nothing better than working for...
2008-02-18
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #2 (Tampa 2008) Notes
Congratulations to Wes Dumey, Pam Shaw, and the rest of the Tampa volunteers for building a very nice event. Very...
2008-02-18
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Turning off a server causes a flood of memories
I just shut down a SQL Server that has been in production since 2003. Next week I'll let the server...
2008-02-17
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Software Engineering
Some see this as a misnomer, or even an oxymoron. Many countries don't allow "engineer" to be a title for...
2008-02-16
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Speaking updates
If you are anywhere near St. Louis next Wednesday night, I will be speaking at the St. Louis Visual Basic...
2008-02-16
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Is SQL Server Dead?
Someone sent me this note about a talk they'd had at their user group and the guest speaker mentioned the...
2008-02-14
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Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings
User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term,...
2008-02-14
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Should Code Camp/SQLSaturday Be Free?
Recently I posted about making sponsorship work to lay out some ideas for events that are seeking sponsors. My friend...
2008-02-13
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Change Data Capture
I started working through some labs for my SQL Server 2008 class and one of the labs was on the...
2008-02-12
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Computed Columns Published on SSC
I wrote this article on computed columns to support some of the teaching I do for my beginner to intermediate level...
2008-02-12
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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