Learn about SQL Server 2014 Performance Improvements
On May 11th I will deliver a precon about SQL Server 2014 Performance Improvements at the SQLDay Poland conference in...
2015-04-09
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Blog Posts
Live Microsoft Event - Power BI Dashboard in a Day - Baton Rouge
Join BRSSUG Founder and Microsoft TSP Patrick Leblanc to learn how to use Microsoft’s self-service Business Intelligence platform, Power BI. In...
2015-04-09
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 1 – Database Structures
Why is moving data between filegroups hard?
As a consultant its common to walk into a customer site and find databases...
2015-04-09
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On Automation
I’m a big fan of automation. I’ve been in IT for 27 years now. One unchanging rule during that time...
2015-04-09
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SQL New Blogger Challenge Weekly Digest
Watching all of the tweets as people posted their first entries in the SQL New Blogger Challenge earlier this week, I quickly realized that keeping up was going to...
2015-04-09
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Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...
2015-04-09 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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An Even Faster Method of Calculating the Median on a Partitioned Heap
Back in 2013 I wrote an article kindly accepted for publication on the Simple Talk web site called Calculating the...
2015-04-08
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Excel Tip #23: Adding a Trendline to Your Chart
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-03-31)
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Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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How to Measure IO Latency for Database Files in SQL Server
In order to get information about the amounts of PHYSICAL reads we perform on database files, SQL Server exposes a...
2015-04-08
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Changing the AG Listener
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