Confusing
As I’ve worked with folks using other database engines, I’ve realized that Microsoft SQL Server has some terminology and handling that is a bit confusing.
Here’s my attempt to clarify...
2021-11-10 (first published: 2021-06-24)
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First, I’m a big believer in doing infrastructure as code.
Using the AWS SDK with any library is great, but for things like S3 I’d highly recommend you use a...
2021-03-24 (first published: 2021-01-19)
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Simplicity Over Syntactic Sugar
As I’ve been learning Go, I’ve grown to learn that many decisions to simplify the language have removed many features that provide more succinct expressions in...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-30)
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Excited. Have a new solution in the works to deploy Ola Hallengren via SSM Automation runbook across all SQL Server instances with full scheduling and synchronization to S3. Hoping...
2020-12-16
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Excited. Have a new solution in the works to deploy Ola Hallengren via SSM Automation runbook across all SQL Server instances with full scheduling and synchronization to S3. Hoping...
2020-12-16
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Source
The source code for this repo is located here:
What This Is
This is a quick overview of some AWS SDK Go work, but not a detailed tutorial.
I’d love feedback from...
2020-12-17 (first published: 2020-12-07)
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Where Filtering
I explored a bit on filtering objects with Go for the AWS SDK v1.
Coming from PowerShell, I’m used to a lot of one-liners that do a lot of...
2020-11-26 (first published: 2020-11-17)
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Who Am I Talking To
You use bash or python.
PowerShell seems wordy, extra verbose, and annoying.
It’s a windows thing, you say… why would I even look at it.
Pry bash out...
2020-11-20 (first published: 2020-11-04)
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Workflow Tooling
Development workflow, especially outside of a full-fledged IDE, is often a disjointed affair.
DevOps oriented workflows that often combine cli tools such as terraform, PowerShell, bash, and more all...
2020-11-03
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Intro
OSS 2.0 is a release candidate at this time, so this may change once it’s released.
It wasn’t quite clear to me how to get up and running quickly with...
2020-11-05 (first published: 2020-10-31)
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By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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