Monthly Archives: September 2023

A Staffing Disaster

Posted on September 29, 2023 by way0utwest

There was a failure recently at an Azure data center in Australia when a utility power sag caused equipment to trip offline at one of the Azure data centers in Australia. You can read about it here, but essentially the … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Ghough

Posted on September 29, 2023 by way0utwest

ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more sex, more money, more hours of sunshine, more years of your … Continue reading →

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Quick Filtering in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on September 27, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I often do, but I thought this was great. A Long List This is the list of databases on a demo instance I have. While it’s a … Continue reading →

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Running a Service

Posted on September 27, 2023 by way0utwest

Many of us work for some organization and we’re responsible for managing a database or coding some application or some other data related position. Perhaps we ensure reports work for our users or move data around. In many cases, we … Continue reading →

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