What is the max/min size of a decimal data type?
Recently, I wrote a maintenance script to check every table in every database on our servers at work nightly and...
2016-05-31
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Exercise for Data Warehouse Candidates
Background
Part of the process when looking for candidates to bring into a data warehouse team is to ensure that you hire...
2016-05-30 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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SSRS 2005 Bug - Percentage calculated column when Exporting to Excel
Nature of the Issue Faced :- Say you have 3 columns in a tablix/table on the report. There are 3 textboxes...
2016-05-30 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 83 (“Columnstore Replication in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 82 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
A lot of things were changed in...
2016-05-29
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Upcoming Webinars and Events
This coming week is packed full of fun events! On Wednesday, June 1st at 2pm Eastern, I’m participating in a...
2016-05-29
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Changing a Computed Column–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
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My 24 Hours of PASS Session Files
I was honored to be selected to join many other great speakers in presenting for the recent 24 Hours of...
2016-05-27
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StorSimple Appliance – Part 1 Overview
Last time, I talked about cloud backup and the two different ways of doing it – directly and using StorSimple appliance...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
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Where are SQL Server 2016 Client Tools?
So, you just installed SQL Server 2016 and you’re pretty sure you chose the options to install the client tools...
2016-05-27
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Why I'm not attending PASS Summit 2016
I know there has been a lot of drama in the community recently, much of it centered around what people...
2016-05-27
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
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