Book: Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
I am happy to say I have published my first book! It is called Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012...
2014-04-04 (first published: 2014-03-25)
3,859 reads
Blog Posts
Changing SQL Server Agent Jobs Ownership: Who should own SQL Server Agent Jobs
I writing this blog post as a result of the following two questions, which I’ve been asked by one of...
2014-04-04
2,140 reads
Don’t Be an Arse
In deference to my British employers, I’ll use their word.
It constantly strikes me how rude, stupid, and unfriendly people can...
2014-04-04
975 reads
Follow Up To A Questionable Trigger
This question of the day didn’t turn out well at all – required too big a leap the way it was...
2014-04-04
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Friday Followup For April 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...
2014-04-04
466 reads
Great Companies – Spotify
I don’t know anyone at Spotify, nor have I worked there. However when I see descriptions and explanations like this...
2014-04-04
693 reads
Monthly Reflections – March 2014
After a bit of an enforced sabbatical from blogging (short but boring story), I was interested to see how my...
2014-04-04
664 reads
New Extended Events for Tracing in SQL Server 2014
Neue “Erweiterte Ereignisse” (XEvents) für Tracing in SQL Server 2014
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Dieser Artikel enthält eine Liste der neuen Erweiterte Ereignisse (“Extended Events”),...
2014-04-04
3,048 reads
SQLServerCentral Editorial: Team Reputation
Maybe too serious a topic for a Friday, I wrote Team Reputation because I like working for good teams – who...
2014-04-04
603 reads
5 Tools Every DBA Should Know About
After monitoring enterprise SQL Server instances for over 10 years now, there are 5 tools that are used every day...
2014-04-03 (first published: 2014-03-25)
7,355 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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