A Day in the Life (4/?) - August 2, 2019
This is my fourth installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog | twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I jotted down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2019-08-06
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Feature Restrictions in SQL Server 2019 are Worse Than Useless: a False Sense of Security And Wasted Opportunity
A misguided attempt to improve security that not only increases the chances of SQL Injection, but also prevented useful changes from being made.… Continue reading Feature Restrictions in...
2019-08-19 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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Running Containers In a Virtual Machine
The more you work with containers, the more you just want to work with containers. However, there are still reasons to have a virtual machine for some types of...
2019-08-15 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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SQL Homework – August 2019 – Getting the data out
Everything else aside two of the most important tasks of a database are to get data in, and get data ... Continue reading
2019-08-16 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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David's book: Putting Your Head in the Clouds
I have had a few people contact me over the last few weeks asking if David’s ebook “Putting Your Head in the Clouds” is still available. The short answer...
2019-08-15 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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SSMS Keyboard Shortcut Fun
Andrea Allred (@RoyalSQL) just gave her SQL tips and tricks session at SQL Saturday Salt Lake City, and a great time was had by all! I learned some things...
2019-08-03
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PASS.ORG–MS Renews #SQLSat Sponsorship and More…
The recent blog post on PASS.org announces that Microsoft has renewed its sponsorship of SQLSaturday events. They are even, at the own discretion, sponsor individual events with more money...
2019-08-03
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Getting Downtime
It’s been a crazy year, as are many of my years. I tend to like that, because I prefer to be busy rather than idle. That’s good, but I...
2019-08-02
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.deploy.DotnetRunner with 0.4.0 of spark-dotnet
There was a breaking change with version 0.4.0 that changed the name of the class that is used to load the dotnet driver in Apache Spark.
To fix the issue...
2019-08-02
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.deploy.DotnetRunner with 0.4.0 of spark-dotnet
There was a breaking change with version 0.4.0 that changed the name of the class that is used to load the dotnet driver in Apache Spark.
To fix the issue...
2019-08-02
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Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
By ReviewMyDB
Many of us use AI the same way every single day. Open a tab....
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
By SQLPals
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
Forums
does anyone used https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit
Could you please let me know if anyone is used https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit github for deployment...
How Can Database Performance Improve the Overall Website Experience?
I’ve been looking into ways to improve the connection between a website and its...
When And How to Automate?
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