SQLPort’s new image
After almost 5 years of existence, SQLPort (Portuguese PASS Chapter in Lisbon) is kicking of 2015 with a renewed image...
2015-01-22
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Blog Posts
Virtual Reality (VR) Meet My #sqlfamily
Virtual Reality? And SQL Server?
“… and never the twain shall meet” bit.ly/1yhgLHS
Or should they?
The time has come for data professionals...
2015-01-22
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Advanced SSIS Training in Dallas
I’m very excited to offer a new course entitled “Advanced SSIS” in the Dallas area this spring. My friend and...
2015-01-21
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Constraint names, Say NO to the default
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it...
2015-01-21
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Space issues with SSIS temp files
The page came at a reasonable hour. All of the overnight ETL and processing jobs were just winding up before...
2015-01-21 (first published: 2015-01-15)
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Statistics Parsing
Never really enjoyed reading through the statistics IO results, as it makes it hard to easily guage total impact when...
2015-01-21
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The Data Loading Performance Presentation
This Monday, at SQLSaturday Israel, I presented my new session, “The Data Loading Performance Presentation”.
I worked on the session a...
2015-01-21
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Your tech lab just changed forever
The VMware Users Group VMUG just announced a partnership with VMware, called the EVALExperience, to offer VMware technology pre-production 365-day licenses...
2015-01-21
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A Reason To Smile! - Deep Dives II
Over this past weekend, SQL MVP Kalen Delaney sent an inspiring note to the MVP email thread, and I wanted to...
2015-01-20
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Collation Conflicts
I have recently seen some “bad plans” being generated by the optimiser and from investigation, the cause came down to...
2015-01-20
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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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