Thanks for the 90+ who joined today's PASS Professional Development Virtual Group webinar on Certification Exams Inside Out: How to Think Like a Certification Exam! This was a lot of...
2020-04-03
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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...
2020-04-03 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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I love this quote from Kevin Hill (and not because he mentions me): 3 things I can no longer justify ignoring: #dbatools Git and #Docker for my dev SQL work@cl@sqldbawithbeard@Kendra_Little and @unclebiguns@GFritchey, I blame you...
2020-04-03 (first published: 2020-03-26)
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I presented a session today at Redgate Streamed and did a number of demos. The code consists of a few flies, which I’ve made available here: BasicUnitTesttsqlt.zip. This consists...
2020-04-02
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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