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Happy New Year!! Yes, I know it was two days ago but I’m still pseudo-on-vacation-not-really so just another simple blog post wishing you prosperity, health, and good tidings this...
2020-01-03
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Happy New Year!! Yes, I know it was two days ago but I’m still pseudo-on-vacation-not-really so just another simple blog post wishing you prosperity, health, and good tidings this...
2020-01-03
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Christmas was this week so nothing technical today, just a simple blog post wishing you and your family blessings and good tidings during this holiday time. May the holidays...
2019-12-27
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While at PASS Summit 2019, I gave a session on designing Azure Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Data Platform. In that session, I talked about Azure storage and the...
2019-12-27 (first published: 2019-12-13)
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Some of the most eagerly anticipated features now available in SQL Server 2019 relate to expanded data virtualization capabilities. Data virtualization enables you to bring all your data together...
2019-12-20
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While at PASS Summit 2019, I gave a session on designing Azure Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Data Platform. In that session, I talked about Azure storage and the...
2019-12-13
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A few weeks ago I attended the annual PASS Summit conference in beautiful Seattle, Washington. This is an event that I look forward to every year. Being able to...
2019-12-06
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Yesterday was Thanksgiving for those of us living in the United States. If you celebrate this particular holiday, I hope that it was a day full of love and...
2019-11-29
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Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft introduced the ability to pause and then resume index rebuilds. This was a great feature and with the release of SQL Server 2019,...
2019-11-22
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If you are like me, when certain events end, it is a bittersweet time. You’ve enjoyed your time with people you consider family, got to learn some new things...
2019-11-15 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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Hiring consultants is like buying a new washing machine. In other words, you get what you pay for some times. A couple of months ago, my washer and dryer...
2019-11-15
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Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
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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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