Webcast: Data Modeling Scenarios and Best Practices
On January 17, 2019, I will be giving a webcast with MSSQLTips on data modeling best practices. It’s scheduled for...
2018-12-28
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Midlands PASS Meetings for January and February 2019
Midlands PASS won’t be holding a meeting in December. Too much going on! However, we are hosting meetings in January...
2018-11-27
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Meetings: Have a Point of Focus
Have you ever been in a meeting where the attendees seemed to go down one rabbit trail after another? At...
2018-11-30 (first published: 2018-11-16)
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Ethics in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft redid its Data Science Track not too long ago and they added several courses and new progress points. One...
2018-11-19 (first published: 2018-11-08)
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How do I ask for SQL Server help on Twitter?
For those of us who have been on twitter for a long time, we are familiar with the #sqlhelp hashtag....
2018-11-07
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Free Training: Videos from Tim Mitchell
I’m always on the looking our excellent training, especially free training. Tim Mitchell, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, (twitter | website) has...
2018-10-29
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Slides and Scripts from IT/Dev Connections
If you attended either of my presentations for this past IT/Dev Connections, here are the promised slides and scripts.
As I...
2018-10-23
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Upcoming #SQLChat on Making the Most of Conferences
This month’s #SQLChat is hosted by Rie Irish (twitter | blog). It’s a timely topic: Making the Most of Conferences. With...
2018-10-22
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Rescheduled Performance Troubleshooting Webinar
With Hurricane Florence no longer a hurricane, we have rescheduled the webinar for next Wednesday, September 26, 2018.
Free sign up...
2018-09-19
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Midlands PASS Reboot!
If you’re in or near the Columbia, SC area, we are rebooting the Midlands PASS Chapter. Here is our first...
2018-09-19
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Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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SQL Server Vector Support II
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