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Last month in January, I participated in the Idera #sqlchat. This is a monthly chat meeting that is organized by Idera Software and hosted by a SQL Server community member. This one was hosted by Monica Rathbun (B|T) and her topic for the month was “SQL Server Bad Habits in […]
In December I wrote about working from home in which I talked about Trello. Trello is a virtual kanban board that allows me to visually manage projects & tasks. As a follow up, I subsequently did a post where I talked about Trello more in-depth and how to use it. […]
Recently, one of my clients had a need to automatically download a file from a public facing state government website. Normally this can easily be done in a manner of ways. Powershell is the first that comes to mind but you could also utilize scripting tools such as wget or […]
With the announcement of the recent security issues, namely Meltdown and Spectre, we at Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting have been focused on security awareness this entire week. To further underscore it, we are hosting a Security Webcast today, Friday January 19th, 2018 at 2:00PM EST (11:00 AM PST). Make […]
Recently, I got to work with a client on something interesting. We implemented transactional replication to send data to an Azure virtual machine. This was being done to perform some testing for a project. Given that the two machines were NOT within the same Active Directory domain, we wanted to […]
Last month in December, I posted an article about working from home. In it I mentioned a couple of tools that I use to help try to stay productive and on task, one being Trello. Trello is a free kanban tool that helps to visually organize projects, which are represents […]
In a few days the year 2017 will come to a close. The brand new year 2018 is on deck and raring to go. Out with the old, In with the New. This is the time of year where people reflect on the milestones of the previous year. Resolutions get […]
It’s now been one month since I’ve started to work for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting. Working for DCAC now enables me to work from home. This was a substantial shift for me as I’ve never done this full time. Working from home offered a lot of flexibility that I […]