Friday Followup For June 27, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-06-27
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Blog Posts
Mile High Tech Con
There’s a brand new business intelligence conference launching next month in Denver, Colorado. The Mile High Tech Con is a...
2014-06-27
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PASS Summit Session Selection
Let’s make it democratic. Let’s ensure we get solid sessions from key people. And let’s save a ton of work...
2014-06-27
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Reblog: June 20 to June 26
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-06-27
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2014
I am excited and humbled to be speaking at the PASS Summit for my second year in a row! There...
2014-06-27
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SQL Saturday #316, MVP’s, MCMs and a baby.
TweetG’Day,
Saturday June 14th 2014 seen the Christchurch, New Zealand SQL SERVER user group host its second SQL Saturday (#316).
We learnt...
2014-06-27
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SQL Server Database Ownership: survey results & recommendations
SQL Server Datenbankbesitz: Umfrageergebnisse und Empfehlungen
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You may remember the survey on database ownership which I launched several months ago.
In...
2014-06-27 (first published: 2014-06-23)
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What is 268435456?
What is 268435456? is the Friday question of the day. It’s a trivia question, but maybe an interesting one for...
2014-06-27
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What is an “operational” DBA?
On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....
2014-06-27
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Entity Framework Fluent API and Indexing
With the release of Entity Framework 6.1 the Fluent API can now be used to create indexes. It’s still pretty...
2014-06-26
144 reads
Blogs
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...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Forums
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...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
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