Naked Statistics
A few weeks ago I stumbled up on this book review of Naked Statistics by Nathan Yau. The introduction on...
2014-05-23
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Blog Posts
Reblog: May 16 to May 22
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-05-23
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Technical Interviews – How to Thrive
There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms
Here’s a SQL error you might get:
not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context.
If you don’t...
2014-05-23
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Advanced Google Analytics for SSIS
Update: There is a new 1.7 Version of Google Analytics Source for SSIS
This post is a continuation of the SSIS...
2014-05-22
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An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha
Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem...
2014-05-22
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Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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Missing Indexes Script v2
Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> is like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them...
2014-05-22 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Rheinland, Germany 2014
It is with a great pleasure that I am happy to share that today I have received news of being...
2014-05-22
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Two things you probably shouldn’t say in an interview
If you look online you can find thousands of pages of advice on interviews as well as people asking for...
2014-05-22
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Forums
advice on ssrs version control
Hi we're a bit behind on versioning ssrs. I think we have over 1600...
Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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