Why Ask Why?
Spend any time around a 4 year old, and you will inevitably find yourself involved in a conversation which evolves into this:
Please do this thing Why? Reasonable answer Why? Restatement...
2015-11-04
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Blog Posts
A Mess of Nested Transactions
Transactions are an area that I often find are used badly, or not used at all. Transactions without any error...
2015-11-03
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Columnstore Indexes – part 72 (“InMemory Operational Analytics”)
Continuation from the previous 71 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have previously written on the Rowstore...
2015-11-03
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Configuring the Azure SQL Database Firewall
Azure SQL Database is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a relational database for use over the internet....
2015-11-03
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DLM Dashboard moves to 50 Databases – For FREE
I love DLM Dashboard. It’s the product that I’ve written myself, in various ways since SQL Server 6.5. My versions...
2015-11-03
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Git Push in SQL Source Control
I’m excited. Git support is growing in SQL Source Control and the release recently contains Git push/pull support. If you...
2015-11-03 (first published: 2015-10-22)
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 2.1: Implementing Probability Plots in Reporting Services
By Steve Bolton
…………In the first installment of this series of amateur self-tutorials, I explained how to implement the most basic...
2015-11-03
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Histograms and Events
The last few articles covered the pair_matching target and some uses and details that go along with it. For a...
2015-11-03 (first published: 2015-10-22)
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Looking Back at Summit 2015
Last week was the 2015 PASS Summit in Seattle. It’s the largest SQL Server specific gathering of data professionals in...
2015-11-03
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PASS Summit 2015 Recap
Last week was the annual PASS Summit in Seattle. The Summit is the predominant educational and networking event for SQL...
2015-11-03
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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