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2020-01-29
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What is a strong password anyway?
Background Fellow Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt (blog | Twitter) has been operating the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) for a number of years now. For the record, “pwned” is...
2020-01-29
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Sorting in Stored Procedures – Food for Thought
We know that sorting can be one of the most expensive things in an execution plan as shown below. However, we continue to do ORDER BYs repeatedly. Yes, I...
2020-01-29
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Insperation
Inspiration: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. a person or ... Continue reading
2020-01-29
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Trace Query in Extended Events
The ability to quickly and easily trace a query is important to database professionals. This script provides one useful alternative to trace a specific spid similar to the method...
2020-01-28
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Trace Query in Extended Events
The ability to quickly and easily trace a query is important to database professionals. This script provides one useful alternative to trace a specific spid similar to the method...
2020-01-28
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Using Erik Darling’s sp_pressure_detector to resolve CPU issues
Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-01-28
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Using Erik Darling’s sp_pressure_detector to resolve CPU issues
Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-01-28)
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How to Resolve Remove-AzKeyVaultKey : Operation returned an invalid status code ‘Forbidden’ Error
I’ve come across another error message in my seemingly never-ending battle with Azure Key Vault. A while back I couldn’t delete a resource group because of Key Vault soft-delete....
2020-01-28
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How to Resolve Remove-AzKeyVaultKey : Operation returned an invalid status code ‘Forbidden’ Error
I’ve come across another error message in my seemingly never-ending battle with Azure Key Vault. A while back I couldn’t delete a resource group because of Key Vault soft-delete....
2020-01-28
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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