Power BI Interview Questions – Volume 02 – Data Shaping
Welcome to a brand new series that I have started with with Erin Ostrowsky [Blog | Twitter] that will focus on interviewing for a Power
2019-07-02 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Workload replay with WorkloadTools
In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Undercover Catalogue 0.2 Hox Fix 2 and SQL2008r2/2008/possibly 2005 Compatibility Patch RELEASED
Undercover Catalogue 0.2.2 It looks like a bug has crept it’s way into the Undercover Catalogue. When running with certain versions of DBA Tools, a number of the modules...
2019-06-20
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Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola
One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s...
2019-06-20
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Job History – Back to Basics
An important part of any DBAs job is to ensure database related jobs are running prim and proper. Sometimes that just doesn't happen. When jobs are being overlooked, it...
2019-06-20
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Job History – Back to Basics
An important part of any DBAs job is to ensure database related jobs are running prim and proper. Sometimes that just doesn't happen. When jobs are being overlooked, it...
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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The Azure-SSIS IR Startup Time
If you want to run SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory, you need the Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (quite the mouthful), which is basically a cluster of virtual machines...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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What is a container anyway?
Recently there was a thread on Twitter which established that a lot of IT people didn’t know the difference between virtual machines and containers. |???????|| CONTAINERS || ARE NOT...
2019-06-19
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Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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