Daily Coping 10 Aug 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...
2020-08-10
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Decoding Helm Secrets
Helm is a great tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes. We can bundle up all our yaml files for deployments, services etc. and deploy them to a cluster with...
2020-08-19 (first published: 2020-08-10)
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Azure SQL Database – Maxdop Updated
About 1.5 years I wrote about MAXDOP setting within Azure SQL DB, more specifically the fact that the default setting being 0. (https://blobeater.blog/2018/09/12/maxdop-and-azure-sql-db/) Now, you should be aware that...
2020-08-10
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What you need to know About Azure SQL backup
Most of DBA are coming from On-premise Database Servers they know very well How we can manage SQL backup using SQL Server native backup or even using SQL Server...
2020-08-08
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Social: Respecting Names
This is a non-technical post, and my opinion. If you don’t want to read it, please ignore future posts with “Social:” at the start of the title. My nickname...
2020-08-07
34 reads
Proud to present at this year’s VMworld 2020 conference
I’m thrilled to support and participate in this year’s VMworld 2020 conference, which is going online due to COVID-19. I’m presenting a new session called “Architecting SQL Server Workloads...
2020-08-07
50 reads
Daily Coping 7 Aug 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...
2020-08-07
37 reads
3D Printing Ear Savers Aug 6th 2020
I have now printed over 20,000 ear savers. I hit 20k printed yesterday on Aug 5th, exactly 4 months after starting this project. As of 7PM Eastern today, my...
2020-08-06
14 reads
3D Printing Ear Savers Aug 6th 2020
I have now printed over 20,000 ear savers. I hit 20k printed yesterday on Aug 5th, exactly 4 months after starting this project. As of 7PM Eastern today, my...
2020-08-06
13 reads
3D Printing Ear Savers Aug 6th 2020
I have now printed over 20,000 ear savers. I hit 20k printed yesterday on Aug 5th, exactly 4 months after starting this project. As of 7PM Eastern today, my...
2020-08-06
14 reads
Blogs
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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
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Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
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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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