Notes on the May 27, 2015 PASS Town Hall
I attended the online Town Hall yesterday, the second one that PASS has held this year. The recording should be...
2015-05-28
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 Install Errors
Whenever it is time to install a service pack every DBA silently hopes that nothing will go wrong. I would...
2015-05-28
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SQL Server 2016 Live Query Statistics
So now that SQL Server 2016 CTP2 is released to the public we can all finally play with all the...
2015-05-28
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Sysmail_add_account_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 5
Hi friends, today we will continue with database mail stored procedure and will learn how to create database mail account...
2015-05-28
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Columnstore Indexes – part 54 (“Thoughts on upcoming improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 53 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
This is a not very deep technical...
2015-05-27
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How an MPP appliance solution can improve your future
Massive parallel processing (MPP) is the future for data warehousing.
So what is MPP? SQL Server is a Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) solution, which...
2015-05-27
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Maintaining Parallel Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular Models–Tales from the Trenches
This post is really a collection of field notes and some lessons learned from recent project experience. I’ve done plenty...
2015-05-27
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Maintaining Parallel Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular Models–Tales from the Trenches
This post is really a collection of field notes and some lessons learned from recent project experience. I’ve done plenty...
2015-05-27
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PASS Board Update: May 2015
I’ve had a busy month on the Board.
You may have seen some tweets going by about our compliance with international...
2015-05-27
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Speaking at ITPROceed 2015
This year I have the opportunity again to speak at ITPROceed, the biggest (Microsoft-related) conference in Belgium for the IT...
2015-05-27
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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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