Monthly Archives: January 2018

IoT Increases Efficiency

Posted on January 29, 2018 by way0utwest

There is no shortage of articles about problems with IoT, especially with consumer based IoT products. In fact, many of the ideas and sales are gimmicky with dubious value for me, but I know what some people get excited that … Continue reading →

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Better Security with dbatools

Posted on January 26, 2018 by way0utwest

I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and incredibly useful for migrations between SQL Servers, but also for various administrative actions. I have a short series on these … Continue reading →

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Are You Always Up?

Posted on January 26, 2018 by way0utwest

I’ve had the opportunity to work for and with quite a few companies in my career. In some sense working as a database developer or database administratrator is very similar at many places. The “job’s the job,” as I’ve said … Continue reading →

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Advent of Code 2017 Day 5–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on January 25, 2018 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is day 5 of the Advent of Code 2017. If you want to read about the puzzles, start … Continue reading →

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