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
The DBA as a helpdesk.
Every one and again you will see people asking What skill do you think...
What’s my MAC Address in a Command Prompt?–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
You don’t need a blockchain
After writing several posts about a neat feature in Azure SQL called system-versioned ledger...
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Error connecting using AlwaysON Listener
Dear Friends, I have a 2-node Read-Scale Always ON Availability Group to which I...
How to get feature key and feature value separated $ based on part id ?
I work on sql server 2012 i need to get featurekey and feature value...
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