Women in Technology - All are welcome!
I was at SQL Saturday 723 in Rochester, NY last weekend. I was selected to deliver 2 sessions, and I...
2018-03-27
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL Database and Cost Threshold for Parallelism
We all know that the magic figure for cost threshold for parallelism is 5 by default, meaning if the estimated...
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-16)
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Backup and Restore Options for Azure SQL DB
I have decided to do a summary blog post on backup and recovery options for Azure SQL Database. If you...
2018-03-26
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Introducing The Blame Game
Introducing the Blame Game! Someone has messed up the new anatomy application’s (Mr. Body) performance and no one is willing...
2018-03-26
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead? webinar
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I will be doing a webinar on that very...
2018-03-26
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead? webinar
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I will be doing a webinar on that very...
2018-03-26
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Notes on SQLSaturday Tampa 2018
Quick notes:
Same location as previous years, good!Parking was same place, but it was confused by a pay-to-park event on the...
2018-03-26
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PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
Mark Williams and myself will delivering a seminar called #Not the GDPR news in Cardiff on...
2018-03-26
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Query Store and Automated Cleanup
Query Store has mechanisms for automatically cleaning your data. It is possible to cause them to break down. While presenting...
2018-03-26
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Revisiting catch-all queries
I originally wrote about catch-all queries early in 2009, just as something that I’d seen several times in client code....
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-13)
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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