I’m Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge!
Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Cambridge on September 8th 2018! And wow,...
2018-08-31
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Talking Data: Six Word Stories
In six words, can you give a compelling description of your data?
I’m taking the Microsoft DAT248x course as part of...
2018-08-30
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Maps in Power BI. Do I really need them?
(2018-Aug-30) While preparing for a recent Power BI Toronto meetup session, I found a very valuable whitepaper on Maps in...
2018-08-30
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ARM vs Classic Deployment in Azure
When Azure Resource Manager (ARM) was created back in 2014, I (like many) thought, “What does that mean?” Up until...
2018-08-30
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Repair Visual Studio for Mac: Extension node not found in path
A few months ago I ran into a problem after updating Visual Studio for Mac, where it would not start....
2018-08-30
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Custom Data Purging in SQL Monitor
In talking to a customer recently, they were worried about the amount of data kept by SQL Monitor. That’s a...
2018-08-30
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The unwanted Side Effects of enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-08-30
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Helpful Undocumented Stored Procedure “sp_MsForEachDB”
This week’s post will be a short one to talk about a very helpful stored procedure in SQL Server called...
2018-08-30
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How Azure Storage Kick Starts Your Big Data Projects
So, your boss says, ‘Let’s do big data!’ And you think: ‘I don’t even know what that means or what...
2018-08-29
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Employee Agreements & Contracts: Best Practices (23 minute video)
So you’ve got an employee agreement in front of you: now what? In this episode, I talk about practical steps you should take to make sure that you understand...
2018-08-29
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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