Database cloning – CLONEDATABASE
Database cloning is a new feature supported in SQL Server. Only SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 SP1...
2017-02-27
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Blog Posts
Digital Privacy is the Wild West
Who has the legal right to access your personal and private digital assets? The answer can be complex, and will...
2017-02-27 (first published: 2017-02-23)
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Installing Windows Server 2016 Nano on a Physical Server
Hey guys! So here's my adventure in deploying Windows Server 2016 Nano on a physical server. It was a hard...
2017-02-27
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Monday Coffee 2017-02-27
Ergh, not a fun weekend rugby wise. But anyway…
Last week Microsoft released an image for SQL Server 2016 SP1 Developer...
2017-02-27
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Red Gate SQL Clone (#1) - Initial Setup
Note this was during earlier beta usage, so some of the UI and other features will have been updated more....
2017-02-27
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Speaking at VS Live–Austin
I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live – Austin in May 2017. I was fortunate to be selected to speak again,...
2017-02-27
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
SQLBits – April 5-8
SQLBits is THE SQL...
2017-02-27
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Columnstore Indexes – part 99 (“Merge”)
Continuation from the previous 98 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on the...
2017-02-26
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Friday Reading 2017-02-24
Wow that week absolutely flew by! Here’s what I’ve been reading…
Seatbelt learning with Uncle Buck
Buck Woody goes through how he...
2017-02-24
327 reads
Improve performance by replacing temp tables with memory optimized tables - Part 3
Welcome to the last part of this series, you can find the previous post here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/01/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-1/) and here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/08/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-2/).
Previously we...
2017-02-24 (first published: 2017-02-21)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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