Why Should Data Professionals Automate?
Take a minute and look around you. Automation is all around you; whether you see it or not processes are...
2015-11-30 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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Blog Posts
Columnstore Indexes – part 73 (“Big Delta-Stores with Nonclustered Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 72 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of SQL...
2015-11-28
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table...
2015-11-27
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5...
Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that...
2015-11-27
989 reads
Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table...
2015-11-27
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that just adds pure overhead. No one likes them...
2015-11-27
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Python Command Line Calls
There was a time I worked in a company any we lived in the command line. This was in the...
2015-11-27
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SQL Server – DROP IF EXISTS in SQL Server 2016
Hi friends, in SQL Server 2016 to check the existence of the object a new optional clause IF EXISTS gets...
2015-11-27
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SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially...
2015-11-27 (first published: 2015-11-22)
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Using multiple log files
The transaction log is made up of one or more files that are used sequentially. So in other words if...
2015-11-27 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
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It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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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...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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