Create a portable virtual machine with OVF or OVA
Today a great client asked me how to export a VM to an OVF or OVA so he could transport...
2012-10-04
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Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek
Virtualizing Your Business Critical SQL Servers – Free Boot Camp by House of Brick
Just before PASS Summit in November, House of Brick and I will be holding a free boot camp on Virtualizing...
2012-10-01
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Speaking at SQL Server #165 Lincoln this Saturday
The Omaha SSUG’s sister group, the Lincoln SSUG, is hosting a SQL Saturday this coming Saturday, October 6th, at Avery...
2012-10-01
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VMware vCenter 5.1 ADSI quirk
I sat down this afternoon after being out of town for week to work on a few things in my...
2012-09-30
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn now officially supported by VMware
I read yesterday that VMware has updated the “Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations” KB article linked...
2012-09-27
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Congrats to Jeff Walker for passing the VMware VCP5 exam
Jeff Walker (blog), a great coworker of mine at House of Brick Technologies, passed the VMware Certified Professional for vSphere...
2012-09-23
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VMware vSphere 5.1 vCenter Data Protection Funny
VMware, why won’t you allow special characters in your root password?
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2012-09-22
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Blogs
Simplify Kubernetes Security With Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common...
A New Word: Lackout
By Steve Jones
lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the...
Delta Lake over Spark Connect
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Forums
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
XML_COMPRESSION for existing tables
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers