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The Transaction Log, Delayed Durability, and considerations for its use with...
If Warhol did transaction Logging… In this mini-series of posts, we will discuss how the mechanics of SQL Server’s transaction logging work to provide transactional durability. We will look at how...
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Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 for YUM without a Redhat Subscription
It has been a very long time since I have installed a Redhat Enterprise Linux distribution having tended to prefer Ubuntu based distributions (such as Linux Mint) or CentOS if I really wanted a Redhat...
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7 days of PASS – Day 1
Having had the luxury of booking a slightly later flight than normal (9.45am to Seattle), I took the liberty of an overnight stay closer to the airport, but unfortunately for me I had decided upon a...
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7 days of PASS – Day 2
After arriving the day before, the threat of jetlag was always going to be there, but I thankfully managed to sleep until 4am and snoozed for a further hour. I started the day looking forward to the...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 3
Comfy, but spending too much time here! Today is the first day of the Summit pre-cons, and I wake up at 5am knowing that I won’t be attending. Instead, I will have a day of session preparation ahead of...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 4
Well, I started the day pretty much as I ended the previous night, I woke up and immediately started working on my session again! By around 9am I decided that I really ought to head out to breakfast,...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 5
It’s 3.30am and I have been sleeping off a really bad pain in my stomach (from what I think is a Mango allergy). Having achieved practically nothing the night before, it is important that I manage to...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 6
Today is the big day of my presentation, and it is Thursday 3am and I have slept since 10pm, having managed to achieve a few extra hours of prep on my session the night before until jetlag smashed me...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 7
After a very heavy night (my only one of the trip) I wake to a pounding head and dry mouth. Having consumed at least one bottle of soda during the night I start on another and then move onto Coffee....
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Announcing my SQLBits Pre-conference Session
High Availability Lab on your Laptop! Having been a speaker at SQLBits since 2010, I am excited to announce that I will be finally delivering a preconference session at this year’s event in Telford and...
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Problems creating Windows Cluster through Powershell
Creating a Windows Cluster is surprisingly easy, but every now and again you run into small problems which irritate and are not really helped by the error messages – a problem which is exacerbated by...
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Moving lost applications back into your Desktop on Windows
Ok, I confess that this post is about as far removed as I can probably get from my blogging “focus”, but as of late I have been running into this problem more and more frequently on my Windows 10...
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Setting up Samba on Linux Mint (the easy way)
The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file sharing protocol introduced by Microsoft and can be incredibly useful when moving files across multiplatform machines (particularly if your...
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Back in the Big Apple!
I am delighted to announce that I’ll once again be speaking at SQLSaturday New York on the 20th May and this is my Third time speaking at this event and my FOURTH time speaking at the Microsoft offices...
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Bitesize SSIS: Deploying the SSIS Catalog
I hate SSIS. It seems to me that it is full of certain nuances and unless you are regularly developing SSIS packages, they are easy to forget or it is easy to miss specific important steps. I first...
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3 days to SQL Nexus
It is amazing to think that SQL Nexus is just days around the corner after all these months of discussion and preparation by the excellent SQL Nexus team. This year is looking like it will be even...
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Why you should attend TUGAIT
TugaIT is an annual event held in Lisbon, Portugal and is in its second year, having first run in 2016. The conference brings together all that is great about the Microsoft Data Platform and beyond,...
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Compressing files from the SSIS Script Task
I hate SSIS. It seems to me that it is full of certain nuances and unless you are regularly developing SSIS packages, they are easy to forget or it is easy to miss specific important steps. I first...
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Using conditional COUNT(*)s
Whilst recently working with historic financial data, I ran across a situation that needed an aggregate view of transactional data grouped by a certain set of attributes in order to backfill some...
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Learning to say NO
Thank you to Kendra Little who is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic on “Interviewing Patterns and Anti-Patterns” – and what advice I might have for someone preparing for an interview. But...
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