Ending My Time as PASS President
With the end of the year, other things are coming to an end as well. Tomorrow, December 31st, will mark my final day as President of the PASS organization....
2020-01-10 (first published: 2019-12-30)
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Grant Fritchey
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Why Don’t People Use Columnstore Indexes?
I saw this question on SQL Server Central the other day and had an immediate, visceral reaction. I know why. Now, before I explain my answer, please, let me...
2020-01-01 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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Fritchey Family Christmas Movies
MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY YULETIDE! HAPPY HANUKKUH! Instead of something technical, let’s take a moment to just kick back and enjoy a few great Christmas movies. Now, let’s be clear....
2019-12-23
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Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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Distributing Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)
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Tracking CPU Use Over Time
A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...
2019-12-16 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM
Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Your First Jupyter Notebook
In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...
2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-19)
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2019-11-23
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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My PASS Summit West 2026
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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