Announcing: AWS Community Builders
I’m excited to be able to announce that the AWS Community Builders, a new program for those who help out with AWS technologies, has been launched. You can read...
2020-07-30
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Blog Posts
Assume a role with AWS PowerShell Tools
Assume A Role
I’ve had some issues in the past working with AWS.Tools PowerShell SDK and correctly assuming credentials.
By default, most of the time it was easier to use a...
2020-07-30 (first published: 2020-07-22)
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Azure DevOps Changing Build Notifications
I don’t do a lot of team builds in Azure DevOps, but I constantly use it for demos. However, I’m often experimenting with things and I break builds regularly....
2020-07-30 (first published: 2020-07-20)
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Daily Coping 30 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-30
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Reusing a Recordset in an SSIS Object Variable
A few years back, I wrote a blog post about using an SSIS object variable as a data flow source. In that post, I described how you could load...
2020-07-30
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Daily Coping 29 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-29
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Database DevOps – Where do I start?
By now you have most likely heard the term DevOps and you are most likely working for a company that has implemented DevOps is some manner, that could be...
2020-07-29 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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Good Bye Import-CliXML – Use the Secrets Management module for your labs and demos
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnotebooks Jaap is awesome I have to start...
2020-07-29 (first published: 2020-07-18)
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How Azure RBAC Work
Azure RBAC is Role-based Access Control it is the gateway for any access (access management of Azure resources) and this service will help you to manage the access and...
2020-07-29
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I am speaking at the PASS Virtual Summit 2020
After being selected to present my full day pre-conference session at the Summit, I am very pleased to announce that I will also be presenting my Database Administration Through...
2020-07-29
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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