Living with Bipolar During a Pandemic
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone...
2020-03-30
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday Live–31 Mar 2020
I’m hosting another live T-SQL Tuesday event tomorrow, which is really just a casual video meeting for anyone that wants to join and take a break from work, life,...
2020-03-30
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Why you should never use default string lengths.
TL;DR; You probably don’t know what you’re going to get. Even if you do know the person maintaining your code ... Continue reading
2020-03-30 (first published: 2020-03-25)
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Probing Columnstore Indexes
In this article, our focus will be to test, the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload, for real-time analytics.
We'll cover examples from each of...
2020-03-29
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Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-03-29
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COVID-19, a wake-up call
COVID-19 is the only pandemic I’ve seen in my whole life. It gave me a whole new percepective of the life. Kaal (Time) is mightiest of everyone and everything....
2020-03-28
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
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Azure SQL Database: Great Choice for Modern Cloud Applications
Microsoft offers several options for moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure. If you’re looking to host modern cloud applications, your best option is Azure SQL Database Service. For...
2020-03-27
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Containers and DevOps
Over the last couple of years, one of these single most exciting technologies to come out around the Data Platform has been containers. You may not see them change...
2020-03-27 (first published: 2020-03-20)
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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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