Azure Columnstore, part 1 – The initial preview offering
With today’s announcement on the availability and support of the Columnstore indexes in the Preview version of Azure SQLDatabase, I...
2014-12-12
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Blog Posts
Friday Followup For December 12, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-12-12
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Giving Back T-SQL Tuesday #61
First off I wanted to thank Wayne Sheffield (Twitter | Blog) for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party and Adam Machanic...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-09)
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Monitoring blocking and deadlocking with Extended T-SQL Collector
Monitoring blocking and deadlocking hasn’t always been easy. Sometimes, the tools available in SQL Server are not as friendly as...
2014-12-12
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 1: Picking a Topic
So you’ve decided or perhaps were told to do a technical presentation. If this is something that’s new for you...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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Reblog: December 5 to December 11
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-12-12
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SQL Bits – Europe’s largest SQL Conference
4th 7th March
ExCeL Centre in London, England
SQLBits have announced their dates for 2015.
I have been three times and...
2014-12-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back
It just seems to me that these block parties of T-SQL Tuesday come quicker each month. I’m always thrilled when...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-09)
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DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD
I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do...
2014-12-11
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T-SQL Tricks – Customizing SSMS Templates with Parameters
I wrote briefly about templates in Management Studio (SSMS), and showed the default templates that come with SQL Server. I...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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Blogs
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Forums
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
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What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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