#DPS10 – preconfs
I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...
2019-08-21
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Blog Posts
Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2019: Choose your own filegroup for the version store
An exciting new feature in SQL Server 2019 is Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR). Resulting from a combination of magic beans and smart software developers (I might be wrong about...
2019-08-21
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DevOps for the DBA, Slide Deck
I have an all day seminar I give called “DevOps for the DBA”. If you’re attending, thinking of attending, or you have attended, you might want to have the...
2019-08-21
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Expose Multiple Docker Ports
I was working with containers recently with Jenkins. I didn’t want the server process running on my machine all the time, but I did need to allow some communication....
2019-08-21 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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Temporary stored procedures
tl;dr; Temporary stored procedures are excellent for testing pieces of code that are going to go into (or come from) ... Continue reading
2019-08-21 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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7th Anniversary
7 years ago today I posted my very first blog post and I’ll tell you it’s been a heck of ... Continue reading
2019-08-20
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A Memory-Optimized Roundup – T-SQL Tuesday #117
The summary from my fourth T-SQL Tuesday hosting for #117. This time I was scrambling a bit, but since I’ve worked with a few customers in the last year...
2019-08-20
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How do you debug your spark-dotnet app in visual studio?
When you run an application using spark-dotnet, to launch the application you need to use spark-submit to start a java virtual machine which starts the spark-dotnet driver which then...
2019-08-20
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How do you debug your spark-dotnet app in visual studio?
When you run an application using spark-dotnet, to launch the application you need to use spark-submit to start a java virtual machine which starts the spark-dotnet driver which then...
2019-08-20
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July 2019 – New Microsoft security update for Spectre variant
If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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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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