Presenting Two Sessions at PASS Summit 2019
In just a few days, I’ll begin my annual journey to Seattle, Washington for the PASS 2019 Summit. This is one of my favorite conferences to attend. It is...
2019-10-30
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John Morehouse | Sqlrus.com
Improving TweetDeck with Better TweetDeck
If you are at involved with the #sqlfamily, you are bound to hear about the benefits of social media platforms such as Twitter. Twitter helps us to engage each...
2019-10-31 (first published: 2019-10-18)
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HammerDB for Azure SQL DB
Bench marking your environment is an important step when introducing new hardware, which is accomplished by running a test workload against the hardware. There are multiple ways to...
2019-10-03 (first published: 2019-09-27)
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Using Powershell for SQL Saturday Logos
Out of necessity are born the tools of laziness. This is a good thing. I have found that organizing and running a SQL Saturday event is a great way...
2019-09-23 (first published: 2019-09-13)
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Moving to Azure SQL Database Serverless
In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless. This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure ecosystem. Moving to this...
2019-09-13 (first published: 2019-08-30)
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Finding the Best Azure Datacenter
When dealing with cloud technology there is a phrase that everybody should remember: Physics Always Wins. There isn’t any way to get around the speed of light (2.98 x...
2019-07-26
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Getting Your SQL Server Backup Footprint
Recently, I needed to be able to determine the total size for all the most recent full backups for certain servers. Luckily for me these particular servers were using...
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-06-28)
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SQL Server Data Pages on Linux
One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system...
2019-03-22
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Checking Open Ports in Azure
Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes...
2019-04-03 (first published: 2019-03-15)
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Secure Travel
Traveling in today’s age of technology is a lot easier than in the past. You can start your journey in...
2019-03-22 (first published: 2019-03-08)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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