SQL Server Quickie #15 – Merge Join Operator
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-07-07
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Blog Posts
SSRS reports in SharePoint mode, Saga #2: PowerShell generates email subscriptions
Life is full of opportunities, it only takes to notice and use them. About 3 months ago I wrote a...
2014-07-07
2,784 reads
Tableau Dashboard Cookbook by Jen Stirrup
DISCLAIMER
I received this book through the O’Reilly blogger review program, which I already mentioned in the review of Thinking With...
2014-07-07
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T-SQL Window Functions – Part 3: Aggregate Functions
This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...
2014-07-07
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 33 (“Tuple Mover that closes open Delta-Stores”)
Continuation from the previous 32 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
We all love and use Columnstore Segments, but we all kind of...
2014-07-04
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Friday Followup For July 4, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-07-04
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Happy Birthday, America!
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events,...
2014-07-04
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Happy Independence Day America and 10 Years Packt Publishing!
If you are in the USA, I hope you take some time today to enjoy your family and friends and...
2014-07-04
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Reblog: June 27 to July 3
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-07-04
889 reads
Speaking at SQL Server Days 2014
I am absolutely delighted to share the great news that I have been selected as one of the speakers for...
2014-07-04
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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