I Want PASS to Survive
I want PASS to survive. I can say that unequivocally, because this organization has been a part of my career, my job, and my life for twenty years. Many...
2020-10-09 (first published: 2020-09-29)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 8 Oct 2020
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...
2020-10-08
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements 2020
Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform related...
2020-10-08 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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Running Express Edition in a Container–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was looking through the forums and...
2020-10-08 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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Daily Coping 7 Oct 2020
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...
2020-10-07
19 reads
Pgadmin Environment Variables
I’ve had to do some work on PostgreSQL, and I wrote an article at SQLServerCentral about getting started. Once I had things working, and could connect from Azure Data...
2020-10-07
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Read the error message
This post is brought to you — indirectly — from a boss I loved working for, on a project which almost killed me, at a company which I had...
2020-10-07
439 reads
The SQL Server and Containers Guide
I’ve been blogging about running SQL Server in Docker containers for a while now and, to be honest, my blogs are scattered over a few years and some need...
2020-10-07 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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Undercover Academy – SQL Server Backup and Recovery – Module 1: Taking and Restoring a Backup
Welcome along to the first module in our Undercover Academy’s SQL Server Backup and Recovery course. In this module we’re going to look at how to take and restore...
2020-10-07 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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Azure Databricks Overview
I have spent many long weekends getting stuck into Azure Databricks, plenty of time to understand the core functionality from mounting storage, streaming data, knowing the delta lake and...
2020-10-06
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
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