Justin Bird

T-SQL Tuesday #136 Blog About Your Favorite Data Type

2021-03-09 · 4 min read data types

T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.

T-SQL Tuesday #135 Tools of the Trade

2021-02-09 · 4 min read humour

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T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.

T-SQL Tuesday #134 Give Me a Break!

2021-01-12 · 4 min read wellbeing

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T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.

T-SQL Tuesday #133 What (Else) Have You Learned from Presenting

2020-12-08 · 4 min read presenting

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T-SQL Tuesday #133 What (Else) Have You Learned from Presenting

T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.

Printing wirelessly using Mobility Print

2020-11-15 · 5 min read apps airprint

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Printing wirelessly using Mobility Print

I've just discovered a seriously awesome app that has solved an issue I've had for a long time. Introducing Mobility Print by PaperCut.

Using a network drive as a Time Machine backup drive

2020-11-15 · 2 min read timemachine home network

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Using a network drive as a Time Machine backup drive

I've been using on old PC as Time Machine backup server quite successfully. I've got an old HP MicroServer picking up dust so I decided to give Unraid a trial. The process of setting up a Time Machine drive isn't totally straightforward but there's a clear guide on their wiki.

T-SQL Tuesday #132 How Are You Coping with Pandemic?

2020-11-10 · 10 min read wellbeing

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T-SQL Tuesday #132 How Are You Coping with Pandemic?

T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.

Executing a powershell script stored as a gist

2020-11-07 · 2 min read github chocolatey

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Executing a powershell script stored as a gist

I use Chocolatey to manage standard software builds for freshly created virtual machines. I've configured my build scripts as Powershell scripts because they install Chocolatey first. At present I copy the script to the VM and execute it. The objective is to avoid having to copy the file. My chocolatey scripts are hosted on github, so what I want to do is define a script that will execute the remote script.

T-SQL Tuesday #131 Data Analogies, or Explain Databases Like I’m Five!

2020-10-13 · 5 min read

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T-SQL Tuesday #131 Data Analogies, or Explain Databases Like I’m Five!

T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. December 2009 was the first T-SQL Tuesday invitation that went out by Adam. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Currently, Steve Jones organises the event and maintains a website with all previous posts which you can find here. Everyone is welcome to participate in this monthly blog post.