Speaking at SQL Saturday #445 - Raleigh, NC - October 10
I will be speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday #445 - Raleigh, NC. If you are in the area, please come...
2015-10-07
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Blog Posts
TDE and Availability Groups
Caution must be exercised when mixing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Availability Groups to ensure databases don't end up in...
2015-10-07
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You DO have outstanding, free backup and maintenance, right?
It’s entirely possible that you’ve heard us talk about our supercharged, free backup and index maintenance solutions on Twitter, or on...
2015-10-07
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Calculate Percentage Share in Power BI (DAX)
What’s my share? Calculating percent share of the total is a common need. Let’s see how to calculate this in Power BI...
2015-10-06 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
PowerShell can pack a pretty big punch when dealing with Extended Events. Using PowerShell as one of your Extended Events Management Tools, there could be a bit of a...
2015-10-06
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
So far in this series I have introduced a couple of tools that are suitable for helping with the management...
2015-10-06
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How I Got my Start at Pragmatic Works
October 4th of this month was my seven year anniversary as an employee of Pragmatic Works. Things have changed a...
2015-10-06
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Intro to the Social DBA with a bit of #SQLHelp
Are you a Social DBA?
No I don’t mean that you are a DBA and attend a myriad of merry mixers,...
2015-10-06 (first published: 2015-09-28)
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Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd – Part III
In our final post in our “Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd” series, we’re going to look at output from Diskspd and run some tests and interpret results....
2015-10-06
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New Article: Loading Fixed Width Files to Staging Tables
My article “SSIS Design Pattern – Staging Fixed Width Flat Files” is published on SQLServerCentral.com. In the article, I provide a...
2015-10-06
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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