Daily Coping 18 May 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...
2021-05-18
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Blog Posts
Testing SQL Server backups and offloading integrity checks
We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
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2020 Advent of Code – Day 5
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 5. I’m going to do this...
2021-05-17
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All jobs that ran during a given time frame.
Short post today. Simple query that will tell you every job that ran between two datetime stamps. Note: this of ... Continue reading
2021-05-17 (first published: 2021-05-06)
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Daily Coping 17 May 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...
2021-05-17
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One-click Portfolio Designs, Instant PDF Embeds, and More Improvements to the Block Editor
We have some exciting new block editor updates to share with you today including fresh collection of Portfolio block patterns, a new and improved way to embed a preview...
2021-05-17
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Powershell Practice with a War Game
I attended part of the recent PowerShell + DevOps summit, and one of the sessions was from Fernando Tomlinson (@wired_pulse and @underthewire_ps) on incident response. He talked about a number...
2021-05-17 (first published: 2021-05-05)
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Tech Field Day 23 Recap
April 21 to 23 saw a new milestone for me. I was a new delegate for the 23rd Tech Field Day! It’s an absolute honor and thrill to be...
2021-05-17
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What’s new with Power BI?
At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021, a ton of new features for Power BI where announced. Below is my list of top ten new features, but there were...
2021-05-17
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Daily Coping 14 May 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...
2021-05-14
12 reads
Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
By SQLPals
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices In...
Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
By Brian Kelley
Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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A Limited Startup
I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
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