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Data Saturday Columbus 2025 Roundup
Read more: Data Saturday Columbus 2025 RoundupBack home from Columbus Ohio after a trip up for Data Saturday #71. This conference is run by the fabulous Peter Shore and team. As I noted in my blog about it last week, this was my third year in a row attending this conference and it hopefully will be a streak I continue. Getting…
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What Counts for a DBA: Focus
Read more: What Counts for a DBA: FocusMore of my “What Counts for a DBA” posts at Simple-Talk and SQL Server Central In this long running series of posts that I have been working on for many years, I have discussed a lot of attributes that a DBA should have. But today, I hit upon the most important of them all: focus.…
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Here’s to great PASS Summit events this week/year!
Read more: Here’s to great PASS Summit events this week/year!To the people and company I still think of as friends, I hope all this year’s events, starting tomorrow, are awesome! When I wrote that line (without the “and company” the first time), I knew what I meant… but as I read it a few times, I thought… this could be taken the wrong way.…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #3 – Andreas Wolter
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #3 – Andreas WolterFeeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in my Feedly feeds. Techology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you…
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Flags in SQL Server Regular Expressions – Case Sensitivity
Read more: Flags in SQL Server Regular Expressions – Case SensitivityPart 6 of Learn RegEx With Louis In this week’s sixth entry of my learning RegEx series, I am going to do two last intro entries for a while, this one on case sensitivity, and another on multi and single line searches. After this I will move into all of the functions that are available…
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Data Saturday Columbus is THIS WEEK!
Read more: Data Saturday Columbus is THIS WEEK!For the third year in a row, I am off to Columbus OH to attend the wonderful Peter Shore and team’s Data Saturday #71 event at the beautiful Otterbein University in Westerville OH. Repeat attendance, changed purpose This year is a big change of pace for me, in that my goal there is to learn…
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In Meetings, Camera On/Camera Off?
Read more: In Meetings, Camera On/Camera Off?One of the more interesting things about being a mostly remote worker is that you are rarely in the same room with people, at least people you work with. For a lot of people, this is a great thing. Call us introverts or at least introvert-adjacent. Other people basically live on human interaction. My people…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #2 – Voice Of the DBA
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #2 – Voice Of the DBAFeeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in my Feedly feeds. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you…
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Viewing Multiple Matches in SQL Server Regular Expression Functions
Read more: Viewing Multiple Matches in SQL Server Regular Expression FunctionsPart 5 of Learn RegEx With Louis The goal of this week’s entry is specifically to show how to see how multiple matches can be viewed using SQL Server’s RegEx, specifically to make the examples clearer (especially in the upcoming entries). There are several functions that you can use where multiple matches are used as…
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Why do I blog?
Read more: Why do I blog?I always ask this question of myself occasionally, and sometimes quite frequently. Somewhat more now that blogging has reverted to a hobby rather than directly a vocation. The other night, as I was sitting at my desk at 12:30 AM writing a blog about regular expressions, I had a crisis of conscience. I had originally…
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I’m Louis
I have been at this database thing for a long long time, with no plans to stop.
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