blog
2020
- Sep Reflections on Being a New Gopher With A Dotnet Background
- Jul How to Iterate Through A List of Objects with Terraform's for_each function
- Jul Assume a role with AWS PowerShell Tools
- Jul Compiling a Custom Provider and Including for Terraform Cloud
- Jun Azure Data Studio SQL Notebook for Diagnostic Queries
- Jun My Experience Switching To A Macbook Pro From Windows
- Apr Using Pester to Improve Operational Tasks
- Apr Improved Windows Terminal Setup
- Apr A Smattering of Thoughts About Applying Site Reliability Engineering principles
- Feb Quickly Create Github Release via Cli
- Feb Asciidoc Distributed Docs as Code
- Jan Running SQL Server in Docker
2019
- Nov Getting Started With Python For Data Exploration
- Nov Improving the Quality of Your Automation Logging with Cowsay
- Nov Getting Started With Terraform
- Jul Painless Synchronization of Azure Blob Storage with AWS S3
- Jul AWS SSM PowerShell Script Automation
- Jun Bump nuspec file version with powershell
- Jun Leverage AWS System Manager Sessions
- Mar Debugging Type Binding in PowerShell
- Feb Migrating From Hipchat To Slack
- Feb SQL Server Database Experimentation Assistant - How to Run a Capture
2018
2017
- Dec Time With Family - Thanksgiving
- Nov Delight in the Little Moments
- Sep Welcome to the World Little Ella
- Sep Recovery is a Marathon, Not a Sprint - Hurricane Harvey
- Aug A Waterlogged Texan Reporting In from Northpoint Tomball
- Aug A Not-So Waterlogged Texan - Tuesday
- Aug Ultrawide Monitor - Samsung CF971 - First impressions
- Aug Fixing VirtualBox Only Showing 32bit Windows OS Options
- Aug Exploring SQL Server With Powershell And SMO Basics
- Aug Capturing Perfmon Counters With Telegraf
- Aug InfluxDB and Annotations
- Aug Dataedo - First Look
- Aug Spotify vs Google Play
- Jul ANTS Performance Profiler for the SQL Server Dev
- Jul Update SSMS With PS1
- Jun External Tool VSCODE called from SQL Management Studio
- Jun Best Practices: Defining Explicit Length for Varchar/Nvarchar
- Jun Add User To Admin Group on Machine
- May Powershell Module Improvements for SQL Server in 2017
- May Running InfluxDB as a service in Windows
- May Setting Up InfluxDb, Chronograf, and Grafana for the SqlServer Dev
- May Automate Windows Updates for Development
- May Programming Fonts For The Newb
- Mar TFS Custom Task - Service Actions (for TFS 2015 Update 2.1 or before)
- Feb Red Gate SQL Clone (1) - Initial Setup
- Feb Life Hack: When you need a mouse pad
- Feb Track Creation of Databases
- Feb SSMS 2016 - Object Explorer Read Uncommitted
- Feb Redgate SQL Data Compare & Devart DBForge Data Compare
- Feb Quick Way to Run Powershell Tasks in Parallel
- Jan Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification
2016
- Dec ManicTime - Timetracking Automation Done Right
- Dec Dynamically Set Powershell Variables from json
- Dec The Traditional Birthday Song Is Terrible
- Nov Scan folder of dlls to identify x86 or x64 compiled assemblies
- Nov Attaching Database Using SMO & Powershell
- Nov Parallel Powershell for Running SQL
- Nov Get Backup History for All Databases in Server
- Oct Pizzicato Pizza
- Oct Data Compare on Temporal Tables
- Oct Fixing Untrusted Foreign Key or Check Constraint
- Oct An Internet With Less Ads - Adguard
- Oct Easy SQL Maintenance with Minionware
- Oct Cannot Generate SSPI Context
- Oct Centralized Management Server 101
- Oct DAW Dive 02 - BFD3 - Drumming for the Rest of Us
- Oct Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way
- Oct Syncovery & Arq - Syncing & Backup
- Oct Powershell ISE: Updating Theme
- Oct Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view
- Sep SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu
- Sep DAW Dive 1 - Getting Started - Studio One 3
- Sep Setting DBCC 1222 on startup
- Sep Ableton Live & Lemur Setup (From a Windows User)
- Sep Lack for Nothing
- Aug Remote Desktop Workflow Improvements
- Aug SSMS - Connection Color with SQL Prompt & SSMSBoost
- Aug SQL 2016 - Brief Overview on some new features
- Aug Install ReadyRoll via Command Line
- Aug Does sp_rename on a column preserve the ms_description?
- Aug Regex With SQL Server - SQLSharp
- Jul Improvements with SSMS 2016
- Jul Glasswire: (Giveaway Included) Networking Monitoring even a caveman could
- Jun SQL Compare 12: Initial Look
- Jun SSMS Tools Pack - A Handy Tool for generating CRUD
- Jun OmniCompare: A free tool to compare SQL Instances
- May Continual Deployment of Visual Studio SqlProj
- May The Mysterious Black Box of R - For the SQL Server Guy
- Apr Red Gate Dependency Tracker - Making Databases Into Moving Art
- Apr Google Search Only Results from the last year
- Apr Automating SSMS 2016 Updates & Install
- Apr Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids
- Apr Failed to Initialize SQL Agent Log... not worthy
- Mar TFS Work-Item Fancy Filtering
- Mar SQL 2012 SP3 and entity framework conflict
- Mar Previewing the new SSRS 2016 portal
- Mar Failover all databases to other server
- Mar Calculating Some Max Mirror Stats
- Jan Easy way to test log shipping or availability groups setup
- Jan Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
- Jan Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 3)
- Jan Seeker & Servant: Fantastic Music with incredible dynamics
- Jan Verifying Instant File Initialization
- Jan Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
- Jan Transaction Logging & Recovery (101)
2015
- Dec Model needs exclusive lock
- Dec Documenting Your Database with Diagrams
- Oct Best Tools for Taking Notes In Development
- Sep Dynamic SQL & Quotename
- Sep XML Attribute VS Element Assignment when working with SQL
- Sep Split personality text editing in SSMS with Sublime Text 3
- Sep Multi-Cursor Editing SQL feels like the movie Inception just became real
- Aug Brentozar''s Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included
- Aug Monitoring SQL Server on a budget
- Aug Stranger Danger... The need for trust with constraints
- Aug Red Gate SQL Source Control v4 offers schema locks
- Aug Using Qure Profiler To Benchmark Tuning Progress
- Aug SET NOEXEC is my new friend
- Aug Running very large scripts is not a strong area for SSMS
- Jul Database Stuck in Single-User Mode Due to Botched Restore
- Jul What was I thinking? Deleting myself from localdb?
- Jun Some simple examples of querying xml with sql
- May Enabling Instant File Initialization
- May Upgrade from SQL 2014 Evaluation to Developer Edition
- Apr Utilizing the power of table parameters to reduce IO, improve performance, decrease pollution, and achieve world peace...
- Apr SQL Sentry Pro Explorer is worth it...
- Apr Restoring a database that doesn't exist
- Jan Statistics Parsing
- Jan Dev Tools: FARR2 Launching groups of files or apps at once
- Jan Dev Tools: The File Searcher/Launcher to rule them all
- Jan Case of the Mondays... causing me to randomly redefine the Scope of Global
2014
- Dec Dev Tools: XYplorer (review 1) - Catalog
- Dec OR pattern causing indexing scans in parameter based queries
- Dec Get Information on Current Traces Running
- Aug Generate Random Date With Starting Point
- Aug Snippet Alert: Useful dates (eom, bom, etc)
- May Finding Groups - Consecutive Months
- May Eliminate Overlapping Dates
- Feb Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
2013
- Aug Renaming all references inside stored procedures and functions can be migraine worthy without a little help...
- Jul Shortcut to reference examples, syntax, and definitions straight from SSMS
- Jul Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes
- Jul SSMS 2012 Extender for the times you want some organization to the random pile
- May TSQL Snippet for viewing basic info on database principals and their permissions
- May A moment of void in the cranium reveals a recursive computed column with an
- May View computed columns in database
- May On how to Googlify your SQL statements for future searching
- May Get synonym definitions for all databases in server
- May Calculating the next beginning of month and the current end of month
- Apr Installing SSMS 2012 all by it's lonesome
- Apr snippet designate a certain time of the day in getdate()
- Apr Native SSMS a second class citizen no longer...
- Apr dynamic sql and a char crash
- Apr How to default SSRS date parameters to the first and last day of the the previous month