Moving VMWare Virtual Machines to Synology
This post was last updated on December 19th, 2021 at 10:20 amOne of the reasons that I enjoy having a Synology DS920+ around is that that I can use...
2021-09-19
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For #JohnsDad
Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world. Much too early. Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his...
2021-08-17
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How I carved up 18TB of Storage
In a previous post I told you about how I got a Synology DS920+ on loan to play around with. The device comes with 4 drive bays so there...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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How I carved up 18TB of Storage
In a previous post I told you about how I got a Synology DS920+ on loan to play around with. The device comes with 4 drive bays so there...
2021-08-13
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How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database into an undesirable state, more specifically into a Recovery Pending state. Well, in my case,...
2021-08-16 (first published: 2021-07-30)
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How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database into an undesirable state, more specifically into a Recovery Pending state. Well, in my case,...
2021-07-30
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Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-26 (first published: 2021-07-16)
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Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
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Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
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Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
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The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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