House Price Predictions @ PASS 2015
The PASS speakers were announced a quite a number of weeks ago now for PASS 2015 in October – and I felt pretty damn honored to be one of the 160 or...
2015-09-07
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Blog Posts
How Many Times Will You Change a Password?
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2015-09-07
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – SQL Info
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the...
2015-09-07
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Report Builder Changes in SQL Server 2016
As a lot of features, Report Builder will improve as well in SQL Server 2016. At the moment of writing CTP 2.3...
2015-09-07
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SQL Saturday #413 Denmark 2015
David Postlethwaite will be giving his SQL Azure “Putting your head in the clouds – Working with SQL Azure” at SQL...
2015-09-07
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The default instance has a name
The default instance actually has an instance name. It’s MSSQLSERVER. This is probably familiar to a lot of you but...
2015-09-07 (first published: 2015-08-31)
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tSQLt in Azure SQL Database
I was excited to hear about the v12 Azure databases supporting CLR assemblies. Mainly because I’ve been doing testing work...
2015-09-07 (first published: 2015-08-27)
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VARCHAR = @NVARCHAR and SARGability
In my previous post, I mentioned the use of functions, specifically ISNULL and the effects on SARGability of the query....
2015-09-07
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Columnstore Indexes – part 65 (“Clustered Columnstore Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 64 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This article is dedicated to the improvements...
2015-09-06
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Use Twitter to get #PowerShell help
A quick post today just to add some weight to something that Mike Fal b | t has kicked off. The #SQLHelp...
2015-09-06
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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