Daily Coping 15 May 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...
2020-05-15
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Blog Posts
Power BI Monthly Digest – April 2020
This month we will likely have two releases of the Power BI Desktop. The April release was delayed into May so it could be announced
2020-05-15
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Check Out My MBAS Presentation on Power BI Report Accessibility
I had the privilege of working with Tessa Hurr (PM on the Power BI team) on a presentation for the 2020 Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) about five features...
2020-05-14
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Daily Coping 14 May 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-05-14
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Presenting at “Data Architecture Day” this Saturday (May 16th) at 4:10 PM EDT
Presenting about Module Signing at "Data Architecture Day" this Saturday (May 16th) at 4:10 PM EDT… Continue reading Presenting at “Data Architecture Day” this Saturday (May 16th) at 4:10...
2020-05-14
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Running SQL Server on my Mac with Docker
My day to day work machine is a Windows 10 HP laptop. It remains docked at my desk where it happily helps me to go about my daily business. ...
2020-05-14 (first published: 2020-05-01)
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SSMS Quick Tip
Today’s quick tip is for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). From time to time when I’m speaking I’ll get a question on how I pulled up help for a...
2020-05-14 (first published: 2020-04-30)
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TIL: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory
Another blog post, another dbatools command. Today’s command: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory Basic command, gets all the job history info and pipes it to gridview, because there’s a LOT of info here....
2020-05-14
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What is Hyper-V? and how to enable it?
Hyper-V is a Microsoft feature to create a virtualized environment. Hyper-V is available in your windows OS and you need to enable it from “Turn On or Off Windows...
2020-05-14
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Adding Analysis Services (SSAS) to your SQL Server instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a fairly simple task, but recently...
2020-05-13
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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