Daily Coping 3 Aug 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...
2020-08-03
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Blog Posts
Data Cleanup for WordPress Tags without a Plugin
Over the years I’ve had this blog, I’ve added lots of tags. In 15 years and 4,600+ posts, you can guess that I’ve made some typos and mistakes. I’ve...
2020-08-03
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Moving 1/3 of a heap
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. A Giant Heap Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don’t ask me why this...
2020-08-03 (first published: 2020-07-22)
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SQLSaturday Auckland: Certification Exams Inside Out this Weekend!
Looking forward to virtually presenting at SQLSaturday Auckland 2020 this weekend! I'll be presenting at 10:45AM Auckland time on Saturday, but that's 5:45pm Friday evening where I am in Central...
2020-08-03
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Last Week Reading (2020-08-02)
Press ADF Release Notes 07/31/2020 I believe this is the first Release Notes from ADF Team. Working with Git repositories in Azure Pipelines Multi-repository access and more. DevOps for...
2020-08-02
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Online certification exams are definitely different
As you can tell from previous posts, I’ve taken a few Microsoft Certification exams here in 2020. As you may have also heard, there’s been this Coronavirus pandemic happening...
2020-08-01
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AWS Community Builders #AWSCommunity
I’m excited and happy to announce that I’m part of the AWS Community Builders. Check out more on Twitter with the #AWScommunity tag. To learn more about the program...
2020-07-31
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Daily Coping 31 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...
2020-07-31
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Generate SQL Server Role Member Reports using dbatools and ImportExcel PowerShell modules
This was initial posted on SQL Server Central articles. As one of dbatools' first members, I've been using it for years and it's really my goto tool. This task...
2020-07-31
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Office Upgrade – A Secret Lab Chair
Last year I wandered over to Glenn Berry’s house for some lunch and a chat. While I got to see his home brewing setup and the latest in computer...
2020-07-31
63 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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