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
1,383 reads
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
183 reads
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
747 reads
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
565 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
391 reads
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
807 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
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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