SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 5
It’s time for week 5 of giving out some copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server. So far, I’ve sent...
2016-07-05
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Blog Posts
Tuesday Morning SQL Break – July 5, 2016
Yesterday was a holiday here in the United States, so I’m starting the week on Tuesday. For those in the...
2016-07-05
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Are my SQL logins weak?
Security is a vital component of data security. In today’s day and age it is imperative to think about security....
2016-07-04 (first published: 2016-06-24)
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I am a Microsoft Data platform MVP
I am so excited and happy to be chosen to receive the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award. This is my...
2016-07-04
488 reads
Influence Skills
I wrote in my earlier post today that I was producing 294 Influence Skills: Getting results without direct authority. I...
2016-07-04
441 reads
July Already...
Amazingly its July already, the year is flying by. With a very busy July and August lined up and a...
2016-07-04
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Power BI – Checking Query Folding With View Native Query
A really great feature that was silently added into June update of the Power BI Desktop is a feature called...
2016-07-03
1,093 reads
Security VC Webinar: TLS 1.2 and SQL Server
The PASS Security virtual chapter hosted a great webinar on Thursday. Amit Banerjee from Microsoft’s SQL Server Tiger Team (b|t)...
2016-07-02
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Azure SQL Database scripts
I thought that this would be useful for others – couple of scripts that I have been using in Azure for...
2016-07-01
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BimlScript – Get to Know Your Control Nuggets
This is post #2 of my BimlScript – Get to Know Your Code Nuggets series. To learn about text nuggets, see my...
2016-07-01
472 reads
Blogs
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
New article – migrating from a named instance
By Brian Kelley
Do you have a case where you have a named instance you'd like to...
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Understanding Temp Tables and Table Variables in SQL Server
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
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Collecting Data Is Hard
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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