The Murder train chugs into Raleigh
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-08-11
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Blog Posts
The Real Reason You Should Be a Proactive DBA
If you’re reading this, you probably think, like me, that SQL Server is an awesome product. One of the great...
2014-08-11
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 37 (“Deleted Bitmap & Delta-Store Sizes”)
Continuation from the previous 36 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
Since the very first CTP beta, I have been asking for some...
2014-08-10
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence and Recap - 1 of 2
(This is the first part of a two-part post on a SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2014 recap.)
Been quiet on this blog...
2014-08-10
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence and Recap - 2 of 2
(This is the second part of a two-part post on a SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2014 recap.)
Out of a total of...
2014-08-10
564 reads
Friday Followup For August 8, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-08-08
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My articles published on SSWUG.org from March 2014 to July 2014
The following is the list of my articles published on SSWUG.org from March 2014 to July 2014. To read these...
2014-08-08
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My articles published on SSWUG.org from March 2014 to July 2014
The following is the list of my articles published on SSWUG.org from March 2014 to July 2014. To read these articles, you must have SSWUG.org standard-level membership. SQL Server...
2014-08-08
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Reblog: August 1 to August 7
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-08-08
806 reads
Speaker of the Month: August 2014
Speaker of the Month is now officially one year old.
I went back and reread my first post. The goals were...
2014-08-08 (first published: 2014-08-01)
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Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces
I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or...
Forums
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
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URL Safe or Not?
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Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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