How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016
Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016. The best...
2017-11-09
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Blog Posts
How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016
Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016. The best...
2017-11-09
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.3: Thermodynamic and Quantum Entropies
By Steve Bolton
…………When I was about 12 years old, I suddenly discovered football. Many lessons still awaited far in the...
2017-11-09 (first published: 2017-10-31)
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Launching SQL Server on Linux in Single User Mode
There was a question this morning on the SQL Server Community Slack channel from SvenLowry about how to launch SQL Server on Linux in Single User Mode. Well you’ve...
2017-11-09
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Things I Learned from Speaker Idol 2017 at the SQL PASS Summit
I was lucky enough to serve as a judge for the Speaker Idol competition at the SQL PASS Summit conference this year. One of the great thing about watching...
2017-11-09
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Columnstore Indexes – part 115 (“Bulk Load API and Pressure”)
Continuation from the previous 114 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is dedicated to the...
2017-11-08
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Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...
2017-11-08
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Contained Databases setup
Last weekI wrote about what is a contained database, the benefits and challenges, today as promised I'll show you how...
2017-11-08
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Contained Databases setup
Last weekI wrote about what is a contained database, the benefits and challenges, today as promised I'll show you how to setup one, how to configure a user and...
2017-11-08
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Five reasons to be a technology speaker
I don’t think everyone should be a technical speaker. But I wouldn’t object if everyone spent a season trying. Why be a...
2017-11-08
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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