PASS, Evangelism, Goals, Dreams
The role of PASS in the community has evolved a lot over the past few years. Back in 2006/2007 PASS...
2014-02-28
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Blog Posts
PowerShell – Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell
SQL Server Export to Excel with Powershell is very useful for all sorts of activities – ETL and reporting are some...
2014-02-28 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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Powershell in a Month Day 18–Variables
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in...
2014-02-28
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Reblog: February 21 to February 27
Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...
2014-02-28
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Upcoming Webinar - Introduction to Power BI
Come join me for this webinar on 3/13/2014 at 11:00 AM EST
Introduction to Power BI
The future of Business Intelligence has...
2014-02-28
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Webinar Q&A: New BI Features in SharePoint 2013
I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about new Business Intelligence features in...
2014-02-28
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Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!
Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!
Wait statistics have always been a very important...
2014-02-28
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Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition
I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
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Let’s Talk Query Tuning
I spend quite a bit of time writing about query tuning on this blog. I’ve written (re-written and am actively...
2014-02-27
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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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