Azure SQL Offers Manual Failover for PaaS Resources
Sometime having the right command in place opens up new doors to test things, like a failover for example. In this post we will take a look at a...
2020-09-22
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL Offers Manual Failover for PaaS Resources
Sometime having the right command in place opens up new doors to test things, like a failover for example. In this post we will take a look at a...
2020-09-22
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Daily Coping 22 Sep 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...
2020-09-22
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Failing SQL Agent Jobs – Part 3
It is Tuesday!! Time for Part 3 in the series about SQL Server Agent Job Failures. This installment will show you how to setup SQL Agent Alerts and Operators...
2020-09-22 (first published: 2020-09-15)
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Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2020-08-18. It was interesting some comments I read about it, mainly why people still use WITH ENCRYPTION when it's simple to...
2020-09-22
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Better Productivity: Cycling the Windows Clipboard in Windows 10
A quick tip I learned, that has become handy for me. Tl;dr: Try Win+V Often I am moving lots of information between different applications. I might do some editing,...
2020-09-21
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Daily Coping 21 Sep 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...
2020-09-21
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Passing array of arrays as a parameter in Azure Data Factory and the role of an @item element in this
(2020-Sep-13) Array of arrays, in a JSON world, it’s a very common concept to have a set of sets of other elements in a dataset. Despite how strange it may...
2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-09-14)
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Prepping the local SSD D: in an Azure VM for SQL Server TempDB
One of the few good, safe uses for the local SSD D: volume of an Azure VM is for SQL Server TempDB data and log files. There's a gotcha....
2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-09-14)
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Daily Coping 18 Sep 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...
2020-09-18
36 reads
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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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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