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I won’t be able to make it to the PASS Summit this year but I still consider myself part of...
2014-03-19
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Blog Posts
The Phoenix Project: a DBA rises from the ashes
About a year ago, fellow blogger Thomas LaRock recommended the book The Phoenix Project, claiming that “every business leader and...
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-03-10)
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Why Am I Here? You’re On Retainer
That’s just one of about a hundred great lines from episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous. A company with the...
2014-03-19
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A Minute About Minute Key
You may have seen these minuteKey boxes at your local home supply store (Lowes has it near me) that let...
2014-03-18
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A New Day at #Ntirety
We - the rank-and-file employees at Ntirety - received word yesterday that we had been acquired by Hosting, a cloud and network...
2014-03-18
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Breaking: SQL Server 2014 RTM in two weeks
Today, MSDN and TechNet are reporting that SQL Server 2014 will be available on April 1, 2014. Thanks to @MariaZakourdaev, who posted...
2014-03-18
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DBAs should be on CLOUD 9 - IT Trends
For all the talk and initial fear that the DBA is going the way of the Dodo (pronounced doh-doh) (an...
2014-03-18
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Finding Mistakes
Ever had that moment where you start getting errors from code that you’ve tested a million times? I had that...
2014-03-18
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) benefits made simple
I have heard people say that the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is Microsoft’s best kept secret. So let me give a...
2014-03-18
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Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-03-18
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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...
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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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