Remote Work
This is going to be the first time I’m working remotely today in over a year. I’m in Omaha, and while I’ve gone to a few cities, I haven’t...
2021-04-30
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 29 Apr 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...
2021-04-29
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: String Aggregation
This is another in a group of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 gave us the STRING_SPLIT()...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-18)
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T-SQL Copy & Paste Pattern – Increasing a performance problem
Disclaimer: The title is my assumption because I saw it in the past happening this way. This blog post aims to make you remember something: something that is obvious...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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WITDC Mental Health and Wellness Day- May 7th
Next Friday WITDC is having a Mental Health and Wellness Day virtual event and I’ll be speaking! I can’t tell ... Continue reading
2021-04-29
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.NET PowerShell Notebooks – Using Pester
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions. .NET Notebooks are Jupyter Notebooks that use .NET core to enable C#,...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-22)
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2020 Advent of Code–Day 4
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 4. I’m going to do this...
2021-04-28
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Ambling through undocumented DBCC commands may result in boredom
There comes a time when we heed a certain call. The call is to avoid dangerous undocumented DBCC commands in SQL Server, especially those that bypass built-in protections. I’m...
2021-04-28
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Daily Coping 28 Apr 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...
2021-04-28
6 reads
My Deadlock Resolution Progress Report
As I wrote last month, I went through a period of feeling personally and professionally deadlocked, and flailed about for some time before I found the answer of making...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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Blogs
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
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