Why I Love SQLBits
Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share...
2016-05-08
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Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share...
2016-05-08
1,230 reads
Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share...
2016-05-08
162 reads
Suppose you have a partition function and a corresponding partition scheme in SQL Server. The partition scheme maps each partition...
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-25)
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Yesterday I presented my favorite session “How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance” in the DBA Fundamentals...
2016-03-01
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Last Thursday I presented my session “From XML to JSON” in the Application Development PASS Virtual Chapter. The session is...
2016-02-28
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So you’ve been working as a DBA or a BI developer for several years now. You know your stuff very...
2016-02-21
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Few days ago (28/12) I delivered a full-day seminar about Hadoop Fundamentals. It was part of the Expert Days 2015...
2015-12-30
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One of our customers has recently asked me the following question (I changed just the business case):
The Problem
“I have a...
2015-12-22
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Have you heard about Hadoop, but never really understood what it’s all about?
Do you need to learn about Hadoop, either...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-10)
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Today we had a full-day event in Microsoft about the data offerings and possibilities in the Microsoft cloud platform – Azure....
2015-11-19
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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