Your own personal space
Somewhere to relax, get away from it all (by all I mean pesky Developers wanting code deployed on a bleeding...
2014-01-30
1,012 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Shutting down multiple servers with Powershell
I’ve recently helped a company move their infrastructure to a new data centre. Part of this involved shutting down a...
2014-01-09
546 reads
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a good Xmas, ate too much, drank too much and are still telling yourselves...
2014-01-02
325 reads
Disaster Recovery Planning
As a SQL Server DBA it is absolutely vital you regularly take backups of the databases you look after. If...
2013-11-26
436 reads
My favourite online references
There is a wealth of information about SQL Server online. Absolutely hundreds of blogs, white papers, editorials, the list goes...
2013-11-19
415 reads
My 5 pieces of advice for new DBAs
As my first post, I thought I’d list a few points that I would say to any new DBA. I’ll...
2013-11-07
799 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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