Spider-Man Homecoming Twitter Sentiment
Hello Dear Reader! This past Thursday night I took my son Zachary to see Spider-Man Homecoming, it was an amazing movie with a fantastic cast. Both of us are...
2017-07-10
7 reads
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Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-03-01)
2,233 reads
Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the big four zero.... 40. A little wiser? Maybe. Despite...
2017-03-01
9 reads
How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016.
I needed to...
2017-02-28
917 reads
How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016. I needed to add a couple packages to my R engine so...
2017-02-28
16 reads
The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network,...
2017-02-07 (first published: 2017-02-03)
1,864 reads
The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network, find presentations, interact with experts, and #SQLHelp offers some...
2017-02-03
13 reads
Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem....
2016-12-21 (first published: 2016-12-05)
3,327 reads
Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem. They had a large amount of skewness/data skew. This...
2016-12-05
8 reads
SQL Azure, Hekaton, and Bob Dorr is Awesome
Hello Dear Reader! I had recently written a blog for the PFE blog, "How Many Tables Can I Have In...
2016-08-29
936 reads
Blogs
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...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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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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