Monday Coffee 2017-01-23
I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets...
2017-01-23
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Blog Posts
Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Power BI Subscriptions
Newly added to the Power BI Service is a much awaited feature called Power BI Subscriptions. If you’ve worked in...
2017-01-23 (first published: 2017-01-17)
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SQL Server 2016: JSON integration
Abstract
This article helps to explain the application of JSON data and the use of new SQL 2016 constructs that enable...
2017-01-23
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Useful #SQLPrompt Tips
One of the tools that Redgate write is SQL Prompt. This might be my favorite product, and I’m constantly impressed...
2017-01-23
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Using Extended Events Telemetry Session
You are probably wondering what this is, quite honestly I was wondering too. Well it is an extended events session...
2017-01-23
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What Is Your Career Investment Portfolio?
Every year, financial advisors will recommend their clients to take a review of their investment portfolio and make necessary changes...
2017-01-23
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Columnstore Indexes – part 96 (“Nonclustered Columnstore Index Online Rebuild”)
Continuation from the previous 95 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on a...
2017-01-22
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CREATE DATABASE – I’ve not seen that before.
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It’s been a while
I thought that I’d make a quick blog post about an incident that I encountered today...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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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
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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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