Generating an SSH key on Windows
I needed an SSH key. First I needed to the WSL subsystem, and once I had that working, I could do the work I needed to do: get an...
2019-04-15
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Blog Posts
How do I let someone execute a SQL Agent job they don’t own?
In my last post I discussed the fact that SQL Ids can, in fact, be useful on an instance that ... Continue reading
2019-04-15
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Indexed Views – Performance Panacea or Plight
An indexed view is a view where the result set from the query (the view definition) becomes materialized in lieu of the virtual table result set of a standard (non-indexed) view. Many...
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Presentation 5: Presenting Performance Tuning with Memory Grants
So it’s about a week after SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. The event was amazing, tons of great people and in a great venue. Here’s the details of what happened...
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Scaling SQL Elastic Pools
There are a few ways to scale a SQL elastic pool. For this blog post I show you how to scale up. It can be done via the Azure...
2019-04-15
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Weekly reading #11
Good day folks! Let’s make this week great (again)! It is spring already there so it is easy to get up at 6am and write the blog! Now looking...
2019-04-15
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Global AI Night at WSB in Chorzów
The 2nd of April 2019 was a big day because of the two global IT events. The one was for developers as a new Visual Studio 2019 was born....
2019-04-13
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Notes from Orlando Code Camp 2019
Notes: Speaker party was well attended which makes it more interesting, the only downside was that the restaurant overall was LOUD, so much so that sometimes you’d have to...
2019-04-13
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The Two Year Plan
Earlier this year as I thought about what I wanted to try in Orlando related to the SQL community and thought about the time commitment, I realized it was...
2019-04-13
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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...
2019-04-12 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
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