Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
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PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
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#meme15 – Why Do You Blog?
Jason Strate (blog|@StrateSQL) is starting a new blog meme: #meme15. The overall topic of #meme15 will be social networking, obviously...
2011-12-15
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SQL Saturday 99 – SSWUG Interview
Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-15
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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PowerPivot Data Connection Error
PowerPivot report returns the following error from Excel Services:
The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be...
2011-12-15
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Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
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Why Did You Start Blogging?
That’s easy, because Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) challenged me to……
Finding time to keep up with awesome blog content can be tough....
2011-12-15
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FOR XML PATH using node tests in column aliases
I've used SQL to generate countless blobs of xml over the years and one feature that I have come to...
2011-12-20 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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Data Mining
Data mining techniques can be used in virtually all business applications, answering various types of businesses questions. In truth, given...
2011-12-14
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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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