So Long and Thanks For All The Fish
Not to try and steal Satya Nadella’s thunder today at WPC but I’ve got some exciting news of my own to share. I’m excited to say that I’ll be...
2014-07-16
8 reads
Blog Posts
So Long and Thanks For All The Fish
Not to try and steal Satya Nadella’s thunder today at WPC but I’ve got some exciting news of my own...
2014-07-16
381 reads
So Long and Thanks For All The Fish
Not to try and steal Satya Nadella’s thunder today at WPC but I’ve got some exciting news of my own to share. I’m excited to say that I’ll be...
2014-07-16
3 reads
Track Incomplete Statements
What about when statements are sitting in your server, uncompleted and not moving, just hogging resources? Use this script for...
2014-07-16
601 reads
Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 22
Had our second planning meeting, still trying to complete the email template and realized we had not clearly defined two...
2014-07-15
640 reads
PASS SQL Saturday Events: August 2014
DateEventAugust 2 SQLSaturday #324 – Baton Rouge 2014August 9 SQLSaturday #304 – Indianapolis 2014August 23 SQLSaturday #328 – Birmingham 2014August 23 SQLSaturday #309...
2014-07-15
647 reads
SQL Prompt – The Power Within
*Photo by Red Gate
Come a little closer; no seriously come on over just a little closer as I don’t want...
2014-07-15
562 reads
Understanding Analysis Services Relationships using Dimension Usage
As a part of designing an Analysis Services cube you must define how each dimension is related to each measure...
2014-07-15
1,714 reads
What does it mean that a value is NULL?
Let’s start by assuming that ANSI_NULLS are ON. If you aren’t sure what ANSI_NULLS are exactly, don’t worry, I’ll be...
2014-07-15 (first published: 2014-07-14)
10,901 reads
End of Mainstream Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
@DBA_ANDY: A reminder to all #sqlserver peeps out there and *especially* to our clients: #sql2008 #sql20008R2 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2014/07/09/end-of-mainstream-support-for-sql-server-2008-and-sql-server-2008-r2.aspx#Ntirety
Original Message:
http://twitter.com/DBA_ANDY/status/488744595136999424
--
What does...
2014-07-14
10,323 reads
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
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