SSMS Keyboard Shortcut Fun
Andrea Allred (@RoyalSQL) just gave her SQL tips and tricks session at SQL Saturday Salt Lake City, and a great time was had by all! I learned some things...
2019-08-03
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PASS.ORG–MS Renews #SQLSat Sponsorship and More…
The recent blog post on PASS.org announces that Microsoft has renewed its sponsorship of SQLSaturday events. They are even, at the own discretion, sponsor individual events with more money...
2019-08-03
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Getting Downtime
It’s been a crazy year, as are many of my years. I tend to like that, because I prefer to be busy rather than idle. That’s good, but I...
2019-08-02
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.deploy.DotnetRunner with 0.4.0 of spark-dotnet
There was a breaking change with version 0.4.0 that changed the name of the class that is used to load the dotnet driver in Apache Spark.
To fix the issue...
2019-08-02
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.deploy.DotnetRunner with 0.4.0 of spark-dotnet
There was a breaking change with version 0.4.0 that changed the name of the class that is used to load the dotnet driver in Apache Spark.
To fix the issue...
2019-08-02
244 reads
Interview with Aaron Bertrand
This is the fifth interview we have done. This time our guest is Aaron Bertrand! Aaron is one of the most community oriented person I know and he really...
2019-08-01
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Teaching DevOps in Indianapolis
There is literally nothing I like better than working on automation. Before we had all the cool toys that we have now, I was working on automating database deployments....
2019-08-01
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Check Out the Updated Violin Plot Power BI Custom Visual
I wrote about the violin plot custom visual by Daniel Marsh-Patrick back in February. I thought it was a good visual then, but version 1.3 has recently been released...
2019-08-13 (first published: 2019-08-01)
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SQL Server Management Studio
Hopefully you know that SSMS is a separate install from the main SQL Server install. You can find the binaries from Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms) Using SSMS version 18.2, whilst playing...
2019-08-01
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Fantasy Football - A League of Our Own - Want to Play?
It feels daft me saying the football season is only 9 days away, when in fact The Ashes cricket series is only starting today at Edgbaston. The Ashes are...
2019-08-09 (first published: 2019-08-01)
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