Passwords = A Good Thing
Those my friends are, in my opinion, one of the single most wonderful things on earth, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Now, you may not like those. So, picture...
2019-10-23
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQL Saturday Oregon
SQL Saturday Oregon — in the city of Portland — is taking place next weekend on Saturday November 2nd, 2019, and I’ll be presenting a revised edition of my...
2019-10-23
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Using the GitHub Package Registry to store container images
The GitHub Package Registry is available for beta testing and allows us to store container images in it, basically giving us the same functionality as the Docker Hub. However...
2019-10-23
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Want to be more comfortable with the Extended Events Viewer?
I’ll admit, I’m a lot more comfortable with tracing and the profiler than I am with EE (extended events) and ... Continue reading
2019-10-23
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Power BI Monthly Digest – October 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-10-22 (first published: 2019-10-14)
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SQL Server Stored Procedures vs Functions vs Views
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server has several ways to store queries for later executions.
This makes developers happy because it allows them to follow DRY principles: Don't Repeat Yourself. The more...
2019-10-22
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SQL Server Stored Procedures vs Functions vs Views
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server has several ways to store queries for later executions.
This makes developers happy because it allows them to follow DRY principles: Don't Repeat Yourself. The more...
2019-10-22
10 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando 2019 Summary
Our 13th SQLSaturday is done. Some quick notes about the overall event, then as time/energy allow I’ll post separately on some things that went well (or didn’t) and some...
2019-10-22
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Updated Data Profiling in Power BI Desktop
In this month’s (October 2019) release of Power BI Desktop, they have added a ton of cool stuff, you can read all about it via the Power BI Blog. ...
2019-10-22 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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Adding a License to GitHub
I’ve rarely thought about licensing my code, but it’s something to be aware of for your work. Most of us freely share code, though I have started to add...
2019-10-21
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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