Install ReadyRoll via Command Line
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ReadyRoll has some great features, including the ability to use without cost on a build server. If...
2016-08-26 (first published: 2016-08-18)
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Blog Posts
Organizing a SQL Saturday – Part 1 – Why Do It?
To kick off this series, I thought it would be worthwhile to discuss why it is I step up to...
2016-08-26
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TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up 26th August 2016
The SQL Server news this week is there is no news!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm
No this is not the 1930’s BBC.
There are no...
2016-08-26
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I’m speaking at SQL Saturday 563 in Dallas
This will be my second time speaking at SQL Saturday in Dallas. My first was last year and it was...
2016-08-25
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RBAR vs Batch
Many years ago Jeff Moden (of SQL Server Central fame) came up with the concept of RBAR. Row-By-Agonizing-Row. At it’s...
2016-08-25 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #555, Munich 2016
I am very honoured to share that I have been picked up to speak at the German SQLSaturday in Munich...
2016-08-25
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SQL Saturday–Viking Edition
I’m off to the Viking Ship Museum for SQL Saturday #532. Actually, the Viking Museum will (hopefully) be a side...
2016-08-25
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SSMS is now High-DPI ready
One of the most popular posts on this bog describes how to enable bitmap scaling is SSMS on high DPI displays,...
2016-08-25 (first published: 2016-08-18)
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Talking of checkpoint
I was having a conversation with someone over a disgusting vanilla latte and we talked about shutting down a machine...
2016-08-25
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1 Day Workshop – Columnstore Deep Dive (in German) on 6th of October 2016
To support more and more people jumping to Columnstore INdexes, OH22 have decided to open another public 1-day deep dive...
2016-08-24
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers