Friend of Redgate 2016
I’m excited to announce that I have been named a Friend of Redgate for 2016. The program targets influential people in their respective...
2016-02-07
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space Revisited
I recently had a comment posted to one of my first articles I wrote way back in 2012 concerning adding a column that detailed the used space as a...
2016-02-06
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI/BA and the Lone Three Leaders
History clearly confirms that good things come in threes. As far as I know this is the first time that...
2016-02-05
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Its been a busy start to the year
Its been a busy start to the year at gethynellis.com. I have been involved in a Big Data training courses...
2016-02-05
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Memory Fundamentals for SQL Server - AWE ( Address Windowing Extensions), /PAE Switch (Physical Address Extension)
In the previous blog we saw the difference between Virtual Address Space between 32-bit and 64-bit systems. We also saw...
2016-02-05 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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PASS Summit 2016 – call for Speakers…
PASS Summit 2016 is the biggest, largest, highest rated summit in the World for the Microsoft SQL Server & BI professionals,...
2016-02-05
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Power BI Publish to Web for Anonymous Access is Here
Earlier this week on Wednesday the Microsoft Power BI made an incredibly exciting announcement and released Power BI “publish to web”...
2016-02-05
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TempDB Excessive Memory Usage Example
I see TempDB using more memory than I feel it should and found a way to resolve it. Previously I...
2016-02-05 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 76 (“Compression Delay”)
Continuation from the previous 75 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
While playing with SQL Server 2016 CTP...
2016-02-04
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Loading a Text File with a Line Feed
Loading text files is a skill that probably every DBA needs. I know that the import wizard is available, but...
2016-02-04
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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Checking the Error Log II
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