The recap of the passing year 2019
Good morning girls and boys, ladies and gentlemen, in the new year 2020! I recently thought that we had started a new decade. But that’s not true. The new...
2020-01-10
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Knocking Off for Six Weeks
This won’t be the last blog I write for six weeks, but it is the last one I’ll syndicate and in which write about technical stuff. Today is my...
2020-01-21 (first published: 2020-01-10)
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Previous SQL Server Updates
Hello everyone, this is John your Austin SQL Server Consultant here and today I am going to answer a question that comes up often so I wanted to blog...
2020-01-09
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Previous SQL Server Updates
Hello everyone, this is John your Austin SQL Server Consultant here and today I am going to answer a question that comes up often so I wanted to blog...
2020-01-20 (first published: 2020-01-09)
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My Desktop Setup
Every once in awhile when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process. Well,...
2020-01-08
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My Desktop Setup
Every once in awhile when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process. Well,...
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
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Running Powershell Scripts – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. When you install Windows, by default, the execution...
2020-01-08
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Remote sessions at Data Céilí
At Data Céilí 2020 we want to be as green as possible and one idea we’ve had is to run a Green Track that will host remote sessions from...
2020-01-08
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The curious case of the sqlcmd password
In August last year I posted about a command line parser problem I ran into with AzCopy, which I eventually resolved by writing a batch file and escaping a...
2020-01-08
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Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, ... Continue reading
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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