Where is your Awesome?
One unequivocal point to note is that loving oneself is a precursor to awesomeness. You can't be awesome if you don't love yourself. Period!
2020-09-06
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Where is your Awesome?
Everyone of us is in a perpetual pursuit of awesomeness - some actively looking for it, while others passively. Either way, it is inherent in our making to reach...
2020-09-11 (first published: 2020-09-06)
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About
Anthony is a Principal Field Solutions Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and...
2020-09-06
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Daily Coping 4 Sep 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-09-04
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Daily Coping 3 Sep 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-09-03
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All triggers have to be able to handle multiple row operations.
Quick post today. Recently I was helping a co-worker write a trigger. Basically there is a table of servers that’s ... Continue reading
2020-09-11 (first published: 2020-09-03)
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Azure SQL Database for the DBA
Last month I gave a presentation to The PASS Hybrid VG https://hybrid.pass.org/. Now is a good time to become “cloud ready” as a DBA and my presentation gives a...
2020-09-03
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When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
Whether it’s in our personal lives or the professional one, we do have checklists for certain tasks. On the professional level, it can be purely technical like SQL Server...
2020-09-03
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New Logo, More Family Contributions
Kristyna and I were looking for an update to our logo prior our sponsorship and speaking at the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) in September 2020. I had...
2020-09-03
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The final word on storage for DATETIME2
Two years ago I wrote a post that got a lot of traction in the comments at the time. Last month there was renewed interest because one of the...
2020-09-02
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