Optimizing the Modern Data Platform with SQL Server 2014
Join Jason Strate and Pragmatic Works in Minneapolis on May 7. Learn about Optimizing the Modern Data Platform with SQ Server...
2015-04-22
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Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q1
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the first quarter of 2015.
INTENSE SCHOOL
MCSE Prep: Overview of T-SQL Windowing...
2015-04-22
541 reads
Backup before you restore
You should always be recoverable. If you haven’t heard that before, take note of it. It’s important.
A while back...
2015-04-22
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Make Sure to Schedule Your SQL Server Replication Jobs
You setup SQL Server Replication and everything looks fine. Rows are flowing between the servers and you think you’re done.
Right? Wrong..
At...
2015-05-04 (first published: 2015-04-22)
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How Do Blind People Use SQL Server?
#SQLNewBlogger
I can just see people skimming that and doing a knee-jerk reaction, “What a cruel and mean title! You should...
2015-04-22
1,035 reads
Padding Fields for Fixed-Position Data Formats
Fixed-position data formats will seemingly be with us forever. Despite the relative ease of parsing CSV (or other delimited formats), or even XML, many data exchanges require a fixed-position...
2015-04-22
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.1: Visual Outlier Detection with Reporting Services
By Steve Bolton
…………Most of the previous articles in this self-tutorials on using SQL Server to find outliers required us to...
2015-04-21
1,758 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
478 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
83 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
45 reads
Blogs
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
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...
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