Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR...
2015-04-06
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Blog Posts
Does the New Cardinality Estimator Reduce Bad Parameter Sniffing
No. Next question.
Although, that answer can be slightly, ever so slightly, nuanced…
Parameter sniffing is a good thing. But, like a...
2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction
In-Memory OLTP is getting a lot of (rightly deserved imho) hype at the moment. But what does it entail exactly?...
2015-04-06
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MVP Showcase Portugal 2015
É com uma enorme felicidade e orgulho que gostava de partilhar a notícia sobre a criação de um evento Português...
2015-04-06
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Speaking at Charlotte BI Group Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, I’ll be speaking at the Charlotte BI user group. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM.
Here’s...
2015-04-06
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Speaking at Charlotte BI Group Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, I’ll be speaking at the Charlotte BI user group. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM.
Here’s...
2015-04-06
220 reads
What is a CTE
CTEs (Common Table Expressions) are one of the most interesting and useful tools added to T-SQL in the last decade....
2015-04-06
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 50 (“Columnstore IO”)
Continuation from the previous 49 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This blogpost is focused on the reading part of the IO subsystem...
2015-04-04
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Hello SQL Server world!
Hi folks! Look, my very first post, yay!
I’ve been thinking about starting my own SQL-related blog for a long time and I guess...
2015-04-04
551 reads
Port numbers and SQL Server
I made a mistake the other day. I’ll admit it. I was wrong. Now I know all of you are...
2015-04-03 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
Forums
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