Make it Work, Make it Fast, Make it Pretty
When I first heard this, it struck me as being a remarkably concise wisdom applicable to virtually any programming task....
2014-04-01
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Blog Posts
Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
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Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
412 reads
New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t...
2014-04-01
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read...
2014-04-01
931 reads
New Undocumented Feature in SQL Server 2014
Today is the eagerly anticipated launch of SQL Server 2014, I have downloaded and installed a copy of the RTM...
2014-04-01
1,098 reads
Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB Come to SQLServerCentral
We’re in for a name change. As of May 1, we’ll be welcoming the Oracle and MySQL communities to SQLServerCentral....
2014-04-01
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Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!
Note: Sorry for the vague details on the tech part, you’ll get all of that tomorrow – this is what I...
2014-04-01
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SQL Saturday Lisbon
It’s a little over a week until this year’s SQL Saturday festivities kick off in Lisbon, Portugal, and I’m very...
2014-04-01
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SQL Saturday Madison – Recap
A few notes from our trip to Madison for SQL Saturday. We arrived two days early and acted like tourist...
2014-04-01
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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
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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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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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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