SSC Editorial: Infect Your Colleagues with the Learning Bug
If you work with colleagues that aren’t as interested in growing and learning as you are, I hope you’ll read...
2014-07-14
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Blog Posts
The SQL Sac wrap!!
Every SQL Saturday leaves a mark of some sort. This time around, the folks in Sacramento have really helped leave...
2014-07-14
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The SQL Sac wrap!!
Every SQL Saturday leaves a mark of some sort. This time around, the folks in Sacramento have really helped leave a BIG mark. That’s right, this last weekend was...
2014-07-14
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Whitelist a Set of IP Addresses in SQL Server
Blacklist vs Whitelist
Are you on the Whitelist?
I think just about everyone is familiar to some degree with the concepts of...
2014-07-14
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Creating a Matrix Infographic in SSRS
With “Matrix Infographic” I simply mean those infographics FiveThirtyEight (site | Twitter), the website of statistic revelation Nate Silver, uses to...
2014-07-11
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Examining OLEDB waits
On our adventure through the various types of wait statistics we end up at another popular wait type: OLEDB.
In this...
2014-07-11
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Examining OLEDB waits
On our adventure through the various types of wait statistics we end up at another popular wait type: OLEDB.
In this article we...
2014-07-11
578 reads
Free Ebooks From Microsoft
Probably you’ve heard about it already, but a quick post just in case – you can download a 100 or so...
2014-07-11
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Friday Followup For July 11, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-07-11
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Notes from the July 2014 ONETUG Meeting
Rained as I left (early) for the meeting, confirming again why I always leave early – stuff happens (in Orlando, rain...
2014-07-11
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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
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