Our Ginger Slides’ Primer – Thinking To Move Your Data From On-Premise SQL Server to AWS DynamoDB?
The benefits of running databases in the AWS are compelling but how do you get your data there? In this...
2017-11-14
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AWS – No Password? No Problem! Generating Redshift Credentials via IAM Authentication
I know we are living in a world where phones and other devices with advanced biometric authentication have been increasingly...
2017-11-10
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AWS – Move Data from HDFS to S3
In the big-data ecosystem, it is often necessary to move the data from Hadoop file system to external storage containers...
2017-11-06
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Mongodb – How to Iteratively Access Data Across all Databases and Collections
With some applications, there may be a need to pull data from other database instances, or from other databases within...
2017-07-06
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Linux – How to generate and configure SSH Key authentication to connect to a remote system
Using SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a remote computer when compared to password authentication, and today...
2016-12-10
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Linux – How to Change Group and User Ownership of a Directory – using chown & chgrp
In this post, let’s learn how to use chgrp and chown commands to change group and user ownership of a...
2016-12-07
353 reads
SQLServerZest is now DataGinger!
We are happy to announce the birth of DataGinger. Starting today we officially re-branded ourselves as DataGinger.com (previously SQLServerZest.com). The...
2016-07-15
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PowerShell – Disk Space Monitoring and Early Warning Reports
Disk space is one of those things that frequently runs out of space no matter how much you bump it...
2016-06-09
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SQL Server – Configuring custom Load Balancing in SQL Server 2012 and 2014 using Read-Only Routing
Starting with SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn Availability Groups provided group level high availability for any number of databases for multiple...
2015-10-01
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SQL Server – Dynamically Generate Scripts for Configuring Read-Only Routing URLs and Lists
Read-only routing refers to the ability of SQL Server to route incoming read-intent connection requests, which are directed to an...
2015-10-01
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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