PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Trimming Indexes, Getting Your Database in Shape
Hello Dear Reader! Tomorrow at 12 noon eastern I’ll be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual chapter, click here to...
2012-10-23
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SQLBalls
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DBA Study Guide
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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...
2012-10-18
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SQL Saturday 151 Interview: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader SQL Saturday 151 is just around the corner. If you haven't registerd there is still time to...
2012-09-27
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Please VOTE for Me: PASS Summit 2012 Lightening Talks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndydoty/2087680308/Hello Dear Reader the PASS Summit is approaching and with that the program committee sent out a request for Lightening...
2012-08-20
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Database Corruption, Transparent Data Encryption, and Trace Flag 5004
This one comes straight from the email bag. A friend recently had a problem, they were placing TDE on a...
2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)
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SQL Saturday 151 BI Pre-con: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader, SQL Saturday 151 Orlando is picking up steam. The Pre-Con’s have been named and they are fantastic. ...
2012-08-16
744 reads
Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard
Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...
2012-08-14
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How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)
I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...
2012-08-08
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Book Review: On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
I just finished this book. Literally. Sitting on an airplane in route from Orlando to Charlotte NC. I got up...
2012-08-07
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How to Find Bad Page Splits
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I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups. Earlier this week I had...
2012-08-06
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
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
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
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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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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