One Slick Solution and Unexpected Consequences
Quite a few years ago my first job in the military was driving a tracked vehicle, a variant of the...
2013-02-07
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EXECUTE, not required, but advisable.
The other day one of the developers I work with gave me a script similar to this:
BEGIN TRAN
sp_rename 'tablename.columnname', 'newcolumnname'
COMMITHe...
2013-02-06
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Quick alert on servers which are not compliant for policies set using PBM
Last month I wrote about leveraging policy based management for regular DBA compliance checks. You can read that post here.
Policy based management(PBM) is indeed...
2013-02-06
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Configuring/Authenticating with Identity Server in C#
In my previous post I walked through configuring ADFS and writing a small C# console app to authenticate with it...
2013-02-06
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Using SkyDrive at Work for Collaboration - A Quick Start Guide
It seems that many of my projects in the past year or so have required sharing files with external business...
2013-02-06
1,167 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 6 (Exporting and Importing)
Welcome to Day 6 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-06
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DBAs and the Dark Closet
For many years, I loved being a DBA because, unlike being a developer, I could sort of hide from the...
2013-02-06
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Speaking at the Business Analytics Conference, April 1-12 in Chicago
The email message earlier today said “Please note that the official schedule will be released tomorrow, February 6th, so please...
2013-02-06
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Partitioning Relational Data – (Part – 2)
This is the second part of the three part article series on partitioning relational data.
In the first part of this...
2013-02-05
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I’m Speaking at ….
Last week I noted that I was speaking at the new SQL Intersection event. Hopefully I’ll see some of you...
2013-02-05
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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