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T-SQL Tuesday #022 – Data Presentation
September’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Robert Pearl (Blog|Twitter), and he has chosen Data Presentation as the topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I shuddered after seeing this topic because...
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UnSQL Friday – Living in the Intertubez
Jen McCown (Blog|Twitter) has declared today UnSQL Friday #006. I’m going to try to sneak this one in before Friday ends, and the clock is ticking. No problem, I think it will easy for me to mention...
View ArticleUbuntu 11.10 Upgrade – Getting Back to Work
The new Ubuntu 11.10 version (Oneiric Ocelot) has arrived. I was happy using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) with the classic GNOME desktop environment, but it’s always hard to turn down an upgrade to the...
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T-SQL Tuesday #024 – When Procedures Are Stored
November’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Brad Schulz (blog). Brad’s topic is Prox ‘n’ Funx. In other words, procedures and functions. In the database. Yes, code in the database. This concept alone...
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Favorite Non-Tech Books Read in 2011
Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) recently blogged about the books he read in 2011, which reminded me of my list from last New Year’s Day of favorite non-tech books read in the prior year. That post also...
View ArticleSQLFriends Lunch How-To Guide
As lunch “how-to” guides go, this one is a bit different. Nothing here regarding which fork to use for each course, what to do with your napkin when you get up from the table, or how to create a...
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Git ‘store’ credential helper with encrypted partition
Tonight I was setting up git on a new linux box so that it can access GitHub. I enabled two-factor authentication on my GitHub account almost a year ago; some great instructions for doing this are...
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Ops Books
These books are never far from my desk My operations management experience was needed for a consulting project last year. I had been the head of a technology team before joining President Obama’s...
View ArticleGUI Phooey
Sometimes a complex undertaking can be avoided by asking the right questions. The best example of this for me was when a client asked me to meet with the head of operations to discuss a potential...
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Thinking Books
I was a research assistant at two universities in the 1990s. So I spent a lot of time loading and crunching data on mainframes with SAS, then I’d take stacks of greenbar fanfold printouts to my bosses...
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