T-SQL Tuesday #123 – Life Hacks
Jess Pomfret is hosting month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and asked us to share our favorite life hacks – something that makes our day easier. I have a few,some people have told...
2020-02-12
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #123 – Life Hacks
Jess Pomfret is hosting month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and asked us to share our favorite life hacks – something that makes our day easier. I have a few,some people have told...
2020-02-12
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Welcome to Azure Synapse at SQL Saturday Tampa 2020
SQL Saturday Tampa is coming up again in a couple of weeks on February 29th and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be there and presenting my session Welcome...
2020-02-12
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#PowershellBasics: Get input using Read-Host
Conditions are the life blood of programming. This condition is met so now I need to do this task. That ... Continue reading
2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-05)
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Azure SQL Database and Error Handling
For some reason I have friends / colleagues telling me that when scaling (up and down for this example) that no downtime occurs. Well, not only does Microsoft documentation...
2020-02-11
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Lessons from Iowa’s Caucus Debacle
Earlier this week, the state of Iowa held its caucuses to choose each political party’s nominee for November’s presidential election. Being the first state in each election cycle to...
2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-06)
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T-SQL Tuesday #123: Lifehacks to Make Your Day Easier
This month, Jess Pomfret (blog | twitter) is trying to beat the winter motivation slump by exploring, and asking us to share, our lifehacks that make daily life a...
2020-02-11
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Allow users to start/stop Azure VMs
Today I wanted to cover how you can grant the least privilege required to stop, start or restart an Azure VM. This is also a fun great example of...
2020-02-10 (first published: 2020-02-04)
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The State of Database DevOps 2020
I’ve been an advocate for database DevOps since before DevOps was a thing. When I first switched from being a developer full-time to being a DBA full-time, the first...
2020-02-10 (first published: 2020-02-04)
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Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2020!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2020 the conference runs from April 27th through April 30. This is an incredible event packed...
2020-02-08
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