T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! This edition is hosted by Malathi (blog|twitter) and the subject is looking back at the past year. So what do I have to be...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday Gifts (#121)
It’s that time of month. I missed last month while traveling, but I wanted to get back in the party. This month, Mala has invited us to talk about...
2019-12-10
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Azure SQL Database – Automatic Tuning – Have you enabled it?
Do you enable this setting to allow automatic tuning to care of all your performance needs? Well not ALL your needs, more so: CREATE INDEX DROP INDEX FORCE LAST...
2019-12-09
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Building an Azure Sandbox – Part 1 – The Basics
I recently posted that I was doing my annual Azure sandbox rebuild but this time I wanted to do things a little differently…all in PowerShell. Unlike previous years when...
2019-12-09 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Large Printed Schedules
One of the things we’ve done most years in Orlando is to print poster sized schedules. This started out as a supplement to giving everyone a printed schedule and...
2019-12-09
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Upgrading Windows 10 Home to Pro
I use Hyper-V and a few other things that require Windows 10 Pro. When I got my new laptop, it had Windows 10 home on it. Not a big...
2019-12-09
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What would you say you do here?
The other day, I was looking back at an excellent blog post my colleague Jamie Wallis wrote about what Product Marketing Managers do at Redgate. I really like the...
2019-12-09
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When a SQL UPDATE Statement DELETES Rows
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. At first I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought it would be too simple. Then I watched two experienced SQL developers...
2019-12-09 (first published: 2019-11-26)
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5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
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