Speaking at DPS 2020
I was lucky enough to attend the Data Platform Summit a few years ago. One of my favorite speaking photos was from the event.Me on a massive stage, massive...
2020-12-03 (first published: 2020-11-19)
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Daily Coping 19 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-19
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Azure Stack and Azure Arc for data services
For those companies that can’t yet move to the cloud, have certain workloads that can’t move to the cloud, or have limited to no internet access, Microsoft has options...
2020-12-01 (first published: 2020-11-18)
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Thoughts on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit as an Attendee
Last week was the first PASS Virtual Summit. This was the first time that the event wasn’t held in a live setting, and this was the third conference for...
2020-11-18
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Setting yourself up for online streaming success, PASS Virtual Summit style
Last week I presented on three separate occasions during what is considered the biggest Microsoft Data Platform conference of the year, the PASS Summit: Full-day pre-conference session Speaker Idol...
2020-11-18
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Daily Coping 18 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-18
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EightKB is back!
We’re back! The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1000 attendees! We were honestly blown away by how...
2020-11-30 (first published: 2020-11-18)
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[Video] Azure SQL Database – Failing Over (Failover Groups)
Quick video showing you how to failover your Azure SQL Database between your primary and secondary location.
2020-11-18
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Virtual PASS Summit 2020 Wrap Up
Whether you caught a single session, took a pre-con, or filled your schedule last week with multiple sessions, l’m going to review last week’s PASS Virtual Summit 2020 conference!
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2020-11-30 (first published: 2020-11-17)
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Filtering Results in Go
Where Filtering
I explored a bit on filtering objects with Go for the AWS SDK v1.
Coming from PowerShell, I’m used to a lot of one-liners that do a lot of...
2020-11-26 (first published: 2020-11-17)
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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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