Blog Round-up – What Are You Thankful For?
Last week I suggested to others that we institute a little idea theft and put together a few blog posts...
2010-11-29
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Buried
Coming back after a week off, even a holiday week when traffic is relatively low, is no fun. I have...
2010-11-29
1,480 reads
Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
The other day I was asked to provide the port number that a SQL Server instance was listening on. As...
2010-11-29
3,394 reads
Lock escalation : SQL Server 2008
Lock escalation is a event which occurs when SQL Server decides to upgrade a lock at a lower level hierarchy...
2010-11-29
1,337 reads
Determining An Enterprise Execution Policy Setting
Windows PowerShell has the concept of execution policy that determines in which cases script and configuration files are able to...
2010-11-28
2,375 reads
New Domain - My blog has a new domain name gethynellis.com
About a year ago I started to write a blog, previously to that, for about three years I had been...
2010-11-28
628 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer
A big part of my DBA career has centered around identifying and sharing SQL Server DBA best practices. There are...
2010-11-27
2,661 reads
Do You Protect Your Passwords?
Protect Your Password! As a consultant, I am frequently receiving new passwords at clients and becoming aware of the password...
2010-11-26
680 reads
Book Review - The Checklist Manifesto
Andy Warren recommended The Checklist Manifesto to me and after seeing his review, I decided to grab it. It’s written...
2010-11-26
1,853 reads
What Am I Thankful For
Earlier this week, I suggested that we share a message of thanks on our blogs. Since I suggested we put...
2010-11-26
979 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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