PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-01
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Blog Posts
Weekly reading #9
Good morning, today is 1st April. Maybe it is a good time to say that for example SQL Server was acquired by its main competitor on the market? No,...
2019-03-31
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Dipping into the Cookie Jar
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O’Neill. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL...
2019-03-29 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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The T-SQL Tuesday #112 Cookie
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and I’m writing in response to Shane O’Neil’s invitation about cookies. Read what he asks and...
2019-03-29 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Export AdventureWorksDW2017 to Excel for a Power BI Demo with Export-Excel
Have you ever wanted to export an entire SQL Server database to Excel file? Yeah, me neither. Until yesterday, when...
2019-03-28 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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Midlands #PASS – April 2019 Meeting with Matt Gordon (@sqlatspeed)
Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC will welcome Microsoft Data Platform MVP Matt Gordon on April 2, 2019. Our meet and greet starts at 5:30 PM with the presentation beginning...
2019-03-28
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Power BI: Where Should My Data Live? Webcast
When you start a Power BI project, you need to decide how and where you should store the data in your dataset. There are three “traditional” options: Imported Model:...
2019-03-28
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The Distributed Replay Utility: Replaying for Real (Where Could It Possibly Go Wrong)?
The Short Answer? (In at least a couple of places) When I first learned about the DRU, I was very excited about the possibilities. I began to play with...
2019-03-28
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A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server.
Brent recently did a post called In Azure SQL DB, what does “The connection is broken and recovery is not ... Continue reading
2019-03-27
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Capturing a Workload with WorkloadTools
Last week I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to analyze a workload. As you have seen, using SqlWorkload to...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Blogs
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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