Daily Coping–2 Apr 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...
2020-04-02
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Blog Posts
Data Bits – Episode 4 – Jules Behrens
SQL Server DBA Jules joins us on the show to talk DBA work, Chickens, Charity work, Mentoring and Shepherding (actual sheep!) See more at Jules’ site Edit: Honorable mentions: Minionware,...
2020-04-02
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How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?
Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...
2020-04-02
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Learn SSIS and ADF for Free
It’s not from SQLServerCentral, though I hope to do more training across the next few months. Andy Leonard is offering Free Training for People Who Have Lost Their Jobs....
2020-04-02
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Moving to a New SqlClient
DotNet developers, if you’re using the System.Data.SqlClient, stop. Move over to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient now. It’s easy to do, well, it’s relatively easy to say that. The actual work isn’t that...
2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)
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Quickly Editing Data in SSMS
WARNING: do not do this in production. A quick blog post on a SSMS trick: how to quickly edit data. Sometimes you directly want to manipulate data without having...
2020-04-02
48 reads
Stress Cases and Data Visualization
Times are stressful right now. There is an ongoing pandemic affecting people’s health and livelihoods. Schedules are messed up, kids are home. People who aren’t used to working remotely...
2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)
414 reads
User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
4,284 reads
User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
6 reads
ADF – Deployment from master branch code (JSON files)
In the previous episode, I showed how to deploy Azure Data Factory in a way recommended by Microsoft, which is deployment from adf_publish branch from ARM template. However, there...
2020-04-01
7 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...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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Question of the Day
The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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