The other day I needed to test some HADR requirements on my local machine so using VirtualBox, I created a 2 server Windows 2012 R2 failover »
Another year, another blog update lol!... Last year I remember doing a significant version upgrade for my self-hosted Orchard CMS software on the DiscountASP hosting platform »
Edit (11-Sep-2016) See comment that pricing tiers have been adjusted since this blog post I've been aware of Pluralsight for a couple of years and as »
I was going through some really old blogging ideas and I stumbled over this one and seeing as I love finding creative solutions in XQuery, I'm »
3 years I was awarded the MCSE: Data Platform certification and as per the recertification rules, I needed to recertify this year to keep it active. »
I think there were are few sighs of relief around the country yesterday after the chancellor finished giving his autumn financial statement to parliament. For the »
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on any core SQL server edition. It »
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have completely neglected my blog.. Well now »
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't know or need to know the »
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for the non-SQL nature of it. »