2019-09-26T14:04:40+00:00
TEST I have a new term for the wait my daughter eats food. Instead of please stop wearing food all over your face and eat proper I'm going to...
2019-09-26
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2019-09-26T13:58:58+00:00
TEST You know you probably reserved the wrong hotel when you drive around from the back and think it's a condemned building, only to come around the front and...
2019-09-26
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Power BI for Communication and Marketing
We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I...
2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-26)
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Instantaneous Transaction Rollback with SQL 2019
If you’ve read about the Accelerated Database Recovery feature in SQL Server 2019 you could be forgiven for thinking it’s just about speeding up database recovery time in case...
2019-10-09 (first published: 2019-09-25)
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Gatekeeping and Accessibility
In my final post about gatekeeping in technology, I have to come clean about something. Let’s go through this journey together. In the first post we spoke about what...
2019-09-25
19 reads
Losing Another Day
I’m going to lose today again. This time I’m headed back to Australia and in flight. I wonder if I’ll get used to this, as I expect between work...
2019-09-25
23 reads
Blogging and coding best practices
I had a discussion a while back, I think it was with Grant Fritchey (b/t) but I just can’t remember. ... Continue reading
2019-09-25
26 reads
Hot Patching sqlservr.exe in Azure SQL Database
An amazing blog post by Microsoft describing the idea of hot patching the database engine in Azure SQL Database to allow for minimal downtime when applying patches to SQL...
2019-09-25
37 reads
Restarting SQL Server after adding a new SQL login
At a project, we asked if we could get a SQL Server login/user so we could make a connection from an Apache Airflow pipeline to the SQL Server instance....
2019-09-24
15 reads
Restarting SQL Server after adding a new SQL login
At a project, we asked if we could get a SQL Server login/user so we could make a connection from an Apache Airflow pipeline to the SQL Server instance....
2019-09-24
326 reads
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