I am speaking at SQLSaturday Guatemala 2019
I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday #828 event in Guatemala city!This will be my first time as a speaker...
2019-02-05
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Blog Posts
Midlands PASS Meeting for March 2019
The March meeting for Midlands PASS will be held on March 5, 2019, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Brian Kelley and Paul...
2019-02-05
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 119 – Pie Charts Tree)
In this module you will learn how to use the Pie Charts Tree. This visual allows you to view your...
2019-02-05
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Read-only tables
Sometimes you need a table that is read only. You don’t want anyone to be able to write to it...
2019-02-05 (first published: 2019-01-21)
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SQL Server Looking into Differential Backups
I seem to be writing solely about Azure so to shake things up a bit I am going back to...
2019-02-05
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Two T-SQL features that I appreciate
We occasionally get cool improvements in T-SQL in newer versions of SQL Server. Here’s a short post on some of...
2019-02-05
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A brief introduction for bcp
I end up using the bcp utility to move tables between environments, and I’ve found that a lot of the...
2019-02-04 (first published: 2019-01-16)
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Classify your Azure SQL Database
Here I am talking about SQL Data Discovery & Classification feature that is built into Azure SQL Database. With this feature you...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer,...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer, I love Entity Framework. That’s right. Entity Framework is...
2019-02-04
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
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...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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