UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Sp_ChangeJobOwnerShip – Changing Ownership in bulk.
How many times have you seen SQL Agent jobs with random ownership? It can be very frustrating when you are...
2017-09-25
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Blog Posts
Columnstore Indexes – part 113 (“Row Groups Merging Limitations”)
Continuation from the previous 112 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post serves as the continuation...
2017-09-24
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check...
2017-09-23
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check out the thread here. I was up way too...
2017-09-23
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SQL Server On Containers
On Sep 23rd 2.45 PM PST, I will be presenting 2 sessions on “SQL Server On Containers” @ at SQLSaturday San Diego, if...
2017-09-23
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How Do I Analyze a SQL Server Execution Plan?
A query is slow, and you figure out how to collect the query execution plan. Now what? In this video, I talk “big picture” about what execution plans are,...
2017-09-22
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How Mature are you in Database DevOps?
I remember seeing the Carnegie Mellon Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) when I was in university. It was fascinating, and...
2017-09-22
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How To Update Visual Studio 2017
(AKA how I lost a morning)
Hello!
This morning I needed to update my version of SSDT, but before I could do...
2017-09-22
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.2: The Rényi Entropy and Its Kin
By Steve Bolton
…………I kicked off this far-ranging series on using SQL Server to quantify information by discussing two of the...
2017-09-22
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Multi Script Removes 25 Database Limit
I woke up to a Slack message that alerted me to a post in one of our channels. An engineer...
2017-09-22 (first published: 2017-09-14)
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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