About me
I have been developing software from my early teens and stayed with technology after leaving school. Initially focussing on software development, networking and IT support type roles, I found...
2017-05-03
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SQL Server Rocks!
VirtualBox SQL FCI - Given Network Name Is Unusable
The other day I needed to test some HADR requirements on my local machine so using VirtualBox, I created a...
2017-04-19
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VirtualBox SQL FCI – Given Network Name Is Unusable
The other day I needed to test some HADR requirements on my local machine so using VirtualBox, I created a 2 server Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster with shared...
2017-04-19
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Moved blog to Ghost
Another year, another blog update lol!... Last year I remember doing a significant version upgrade for my self-hosted Orchard CMS...
2017-04-12
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Moved blog to Ghost
Another year, another blog update lol!… Last year I remember doing a significant version upgrade for my self-hosted Orchard CMS software on the DiscountASP hosting platform and it all...
2017-04-12
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Apologies in advance
This is a quick post to apologise in advance if all my historical blog posts get republished.
Recently it appears that...
2017-04-06
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Olcot and Arratoon Ancestry
I have spent a fair amount of time researching the Olcot and Arratoon ancestry and I am very interested in the family tree, especially pre 1900 in India. If...
2017-04-03
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Pluralsight = Essential Training
Edit (11-Sep-2016) See comment that pricing tiers have been adjusted since this blog post
I've been aware of Pluralsight for a...
2016-09-11
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Pluralsight = Essential Training
Edit (11-Sep-2016) See comment that pricing tiers have been adjusted since this blog post I’ve been aware of Pluralsight for a couple of years and as I’m always looking...
2016-09-11
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Update duplicate xml attribute values to unique value
I was going through some really old blogging ideas and I stumbled over this one and seeing as I love...
2016-06-23
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Blogs
Why You Need Presentation Skills
And no, the answer is not because you want to be a Microsoft MVP....
Daily Coping 29 Sep 2022
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to avoid saying “I should” and make time to do...
How to Calculate Compound Rate in Power BI
Recently I had an interesting use case where I had to a compound calculation...
Forums
TCP Provider: A connection attempt failed for target server
Hi. In source SQL Instance target linked server has been created and connection tested...
Get Part number and display in Header
Hello, so I have a part number, and I want to display it in...
BlobColumn to String
I have this column in sql server that has value of "dog,cat,mouse" so I...
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