Why contractors need recruitment agents?
Welcome to WIN at IT contracting: A FREE guide showing YOU How to get the most out of Recruitment Agent...
2018-03-15
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Blog Posts
Dates and Times in SQL Server: TIME
This post continues our look at date and time data types in SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 introduced new data...
2018-03-14
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Every Single Execution Plan is an Estimated Plan
All the execution plans are estimated plans. All of them. There fundamentally isn’t any such thing as an “Actual” plan.
Where...
2018-03-14 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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How I became a Data Platform MVP
As I spent last week attending my first MVP Summit in Seattle I thought I’d write this post about how...
2018-03-14
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Importance of Memory Setting in SQL Server
Memory is one among the resources forming the performance triangle—CPU and storage being the other two. If one is hit,...
2018-03-14
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Management Studio Shortcut – Change Connection
Update: Now with Object Explorer shortcuts! One of the most common things I do within SSMS is to change connection for...
2018-03-14
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SQL Server Management Studio Dark theme
Enable dark-theme for SSMS Purpose Guide to enable dark-theme in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS). Reading time +/- 10 minutes References www.sqlserver.info...
2018-03-14
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SQL Server Management Studio Dark theme
Enable dark-theme for SSMS Purpose Guide to enable dark-theme in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS). Reading time +/- 10 minutes References www.sqlserver.info...
2018-03-14
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SSMS 17.4 Vulnerability Assessment
SSMS 17.5 is out as of February 2018, but the the Vulnerability Assessment (VA) was released in SSMS 7.4
It seems...
2018-03-14 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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The SQL Privacy Summit
This May 18th, Redgate is putting on a SQL Privacy Summit for people that are looking for solutions to help...
2018-03-14
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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