Announcing ExtendedTSQLCollector
I haven’t been blogging much lately, actually I haven’t been blogging at all in the last 4 months. The reason...
2014-07-22
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Blog Posts
Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 24
We’re at 180 registered so far and we haven’t published the schedule yet! So far so good. We’re on track...
2014-07-22
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Keep it simple.... you know.
Twice a week I am asked "why don't you add new cool feature to ExpressProfiler?"
The answer is as simple as...
2014-07-22
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SQL Server Agent job steps vs SSIS
When doing ETL, you have the choice of using T-SQL or SSIS (see When to use T-SQL or SSIS for ETL). ...
2014-07-22
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SQLBits recap
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-07-22
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Yes, Virginia, you can have too much white space.
When I was in college and taking programming classes (back in the days when “a T-Rex ate my 5.25 inch...
2014-07-22 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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July 2014 – SQL Server Monthly Maintenance Checklist
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It’s been a few months since I’ve updated my SQL Server monthly maintenance checklist. Even though it hasn’t been...
2014-07-21
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #93
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-07-21
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Null Values in SQL Server
Walk & Talk #001 – Unknown or Null Values
Ride with us in this video as we head to Richmond, Virginia to present...
2014-07-21
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PASS Data Arch VC presents SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey - How to Build a Database Deployment Pipeline
Please come join the Data Architecture VC this Wednesday to get info from MVP Grant about Database Deployment something all...
2014-07-21
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers