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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Blog Posts
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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Common Table Expressions Are Not Tables
There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
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It’s a Problem When a SysAdmin Can’t Log In
I showcased a demo recently that looked at a potential issue with an application where a user used a simple...
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-12)
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 3.3: The Limitations of the Tietjen-Moore Test
By Steve Bolton
…………The Tietjen-Moore test may have the coolest-soundest name of any of the outlier detection methods I’ll be surveying...
2015-01-20
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SQL Script to find the databases size
Sometimes we need to find out the size of the database on a server. Below SQL Scripts can be used...
2015-01-20
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SQL Script to find the list of all the jobs failed yesterday
One of the important task of any DBA is to find out all the jobs which are failed yesterday. Below...
2015-01-20
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SQL Script to find the tables created from a given date
Below is the SQL query which can be used to find out the tables which are created or modified on...
2015-01-20
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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