A Year of COVID-19
At this time last year, I was supposed to be in England. I coached the weekend of Mar 7-9, and was supposed to leave the evening of the 9th...
2021-03-12
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Daily Coping 12 Mar 2021
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...
2021-03-12
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Daily Coping 11 Mar 2021
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...
2021-03-11
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Quick NoLock with SQL Prompt
First, please, please, please, avoid NoLock. You can lose data, or get strange results, as Jason Strate demonstrates (blog | video). Before you read further or try this, read...
2021-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #011: Misconceptions
(If you would like to read the previous T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective entries, visit this link.) In October 2010, Sankar Reddy asked us which misconceptions we’ve been labouring under when...
2021-03-16 (first published: 2021-03-10)
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How SQL Server Synonyms Help Database DevOps
Synonyms inside SQL Server are one of those useful but forgotten features. A synonym is a database level object that allows you to provide an alternative name for another...
2021-03-10
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How SQL Server Synonyms Help Database DevOps
Synonyms inside SQL Server are one of those useful but forgotten features. A synonym is a database level object that allows you to provide an alternative name for another...
2021-03-15 (first published: 2021-03-10)
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Daily Coping 10 Mar 2021
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...
2021-03-10
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Right sizing int : T-SQL Tuesday #136
Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) is our host this month, which will make this the most popular #tsql2sday to date I’m sure. ... Continue reading
2021-03-15 (first published: 2021-03-09)
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Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure: DP 300 study guide
I am excited to share an important milestone in my life. My third book, “Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft SQL“, is released. Co-authored with Ahmad Yaseen and Rajendra Gupta,...
2021-04-19 (first published: 2021-03-09)
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Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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SQL Server Vector Support II
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