A Whole Day of PowerShell and SQL – Join Chrissy LeMaire & I at #sqlsatvienna
SQL Saturday Vienna 2017 is only just around the corner.
On Friday, January 20, 2017, a lot of local and international...
2017-01-09
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Blog Posts
Disk Space Monitoring using SQL Server DMV
DMV : sys.dm_os_volume_stats
Being a SQL Server database administrator, you may often receive alerts or asked by Senior DBAs to check, if...
2017-01-09
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Forcing Parallelism – T-SQL Tuesday
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly event where SQL Server bloggers write a post based on a subject chosen by the...
2017-01-09
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Getting Started Blogging–#SQLNewBlogger
It’s a new year, and the perfect time for you to start blogging about your SQL Server work. I think...
2017-01-09
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Monday Coffee 2017-01-09
I’m almost back into the swing of things now after the Xmas break, that holiday feeling has just about left...
2017-01-09
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Should We Allow Paid Sponsor Presentations at PASS Summit?
For many years the PASS Summit program committee has enforced a bright line rule – no sponsor content in the educational...
2017-01-09
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Starting with Chocolatey
I ran across Chocolatey years ago when Scott Hanselman wrote about it in his power tool list. At the time,...
2017-01-09 (first published: 2017-01-02)
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 95 (“Basic Query Patterns”)
Continuation from the previous 94 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In this blog post I am continuing...
2017-01-07
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Checking Permissions for Keys–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-01-06 (first published: 2016-12-29)
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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