Friday Followup For March 7, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-03-07
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Blog Posts
Impersonating a server level permission
Warnings up front, this has some serious security implications. The method I’m going to use minimizes that somewhat but it’s...
2014-03-07 (first published: 2014-02-26)
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Reblog: February 28 to March 6
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-03-07
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Speaker of the Month, March 2014
This never gets easier. I was able to attend a bunch of sessions in the last month from a number...
2014-03-07
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A CLR Application: Deleting Three Billion Rows
In one of SQL Server Central’s recent daily newsletters, Steve Jones’s editorial was inquiring whether or not anyone has been...
2014-03-06
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Approachable? Sometimes.
Deservedly so, I got called out for a bit of attitude I displayed in a recent blog post: Time for...
2014-03-06 (first published: 2014-02-25)
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Configuring Native Mode SSRS on local host
OK, so you successfully installed SQL Server and you selected to deploy SQL Server Reporting Services using the default installation...
2014-03-06
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Different approaches of counting number of rows in a table
Today, I received an email from the developer asking if there is a better way instead of the COUNT (*) Transact-SQL...
2014-03-06
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Dude, where’s my Power Map?
If you haven’t noticed lately, Power Map has gone into General Availability as of 25 of February 2014. It comes...
2014-03-06 (first published: 2014-02-26)
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How wait statistics are generated
In our last article “Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!” we discussed a...
2014-03-06
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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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