Speaker of the Month: September 2015
Feast or famine.
The last several months I just haven’t seen that many speakers, let alone that many community speakers. Then,...
2015-09-04
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Blog Posts
XEvent Session Supporting Cast
Beyond the metadata in the the catalog views and DMVs, there are a few more objects that come in handy when dealing with Extended Events. I call these the...
2015-09-04
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Automatic Roll Forward Transaction Log Backups
Performing a transaction log backup every 15 minutes has its advantages. But it also has disadvantages. Ever tried to restore...
2015-09-03 (first published: 2015-08-25)
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Growing Pains for the Networking Dinner
A few years ago Andy Warren had this idea for a networking dinner. We had been chatting about all the...
2015-09-03
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 7: Cook’s Distance
By Steve Bolton[
…………I originally intended to save Cook’s and Mahalanobis Distances to close out this series not only because the...
2015-09-03 (first published: 2015-08-24)
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SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension part 3: system monitoring
In this article I’d like to tell about monitoring tools available in SQL Server 2014 to evaluate the performance of...
2015-09-03
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SSIS – Unexpected Termination
I was toying around with the new SQL Server 2016 CTP release and I wanted to run a few SSIS packages...
2015-09-03
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Viewing Running XEvent Metadata
Running session metadata, while it can be still be viewed in the catalog views, is exposed via DMVs. Putting it a slightly different way, if I query DMVs that...
2015-09-03
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10 DAX Calculations for your Tabular or Power Pivot Model (Part 1)
If you’ve read my blog for a while you may have seen the following posts:
Ten MDX Calculations For Your Cube...
2015-09-02
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An Evening of Networking at the 2015 PASS Summit on October 26, 2015 (Monday)
Going to be in Seattle on Monday night (Oct 26th) and want to see old friends and make some new...
2015-09-02
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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