Aaron Nelson

Aaron Nelson ( blog | twitter ) is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server (Data Platform) and leads the PowerShell Virtual Chapters of PASS, and volunteers for the local PASS Chapter AtlantaMDF, and helps organize SQL Saturday events in Atlanta. The PowerShell VC of PASS hosts monthly sessions on SQL Server and PowerShell, and you can find the recordings of those sessions on their YouTube channel.

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Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables

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Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...

Updating the Data API Builder

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I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...

T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget

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I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...

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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies

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Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...

Measuring Productivity

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python

By Cláudio Tereso

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Question of the Day

Tracking All the Queries

I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?

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