Last Week Reading (2018-12-23)
The Christmas is coming. But before we start the festive time and sit down to the Christmas Eve dinner – a...
2018-12-23
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Blog Posts
Call for Speakers for Orlando Code Camp Closes Jan 18, 2019 & We Need SQL Speakers
Orlando Code Camp is March 30. 2019 in Lake Mary (same location as SQLSaturday Orlando) and we’re hoping to have...
2018-12-22
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2 (Inventory Management)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2
As I explained in yesterday’s post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code challenge,...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-04)
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Azure Portal Enhancements – Switching Accounts
More and more I am impressed on the Azure Portal. Microsoft continues to make enhancements to the user interface (UI)...
2018-12-21
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Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join
It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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File Maintenance – Cleaning Up Old Files
We have all run into a need or a desire to clean up old stale files from the file system, whether it be to remove old backup files or...
2018-12-21
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Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before Christmas (Today!) in the United Kingdom.It is the most...
2018-12-21
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Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before...
2018-12-21
178 reads
MongoDB – DBs and Configurations
Continue to our last discussion , today we will be discussing on MongoDB default databases and more… When you install mongoDB...
2018-12-21
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Select-AzureRmProfile : The term ‘Select-AzureRmProfile’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program
I got a chance to work with PowerShell automation script to automate the login process. In the script, the profile...
2018-12-21
257 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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