Tonight: NYC Metro User Group Presents Kimberly L. Tripp & Jonathan Kehayias
Tonight: The NYC Metro User Group Presents Kimberly L. Tripp (blog) and Jonathan Kehayias (blog)!
Let's welcome them to NYC! Now at...
2014-02-25
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Blog Posts
What is HDInsight?
There are two flavors of HDInsight: Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows (recently quietly killed but...
2014-02-25
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31 Days of SSIS for SQL Server 2014 Update Question
A few years back, I put together a blog series on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) titled 31 Days of SSIS....
2014-02-24
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Accenture and DataStax Establish Big Data Alliance #bigdata
Accenture and DataStax have signed an alliance agreement, formalizing their longstanding collaboration in helping clients manage and drive insights from...
2014-02-24
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Expiration dates: SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
SQL Server is a software product, right? And software has a history of having bugs, getting updates, and having support...
2014-02-24
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Free Presentation Software
Here’s a list of free presentation software I ran across, maybe worth a few minutes to get out of the...
2014-02-24
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HealthySQL 2.0 for SQLSaturday#268
Over the last year, I was presenting and touring the SQL Saturday circuit with my HealthySQL 2.0 presentation. HealthySQL is...
2014-02-24
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How to check for last SQL Server backup
As a database professional, I get asked to review the health of database environments very often. When I perform these...
2014-02-24 (first published: 2014-02-18)
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-02-24
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Modern Retail Architectures Built with Hadoop | Hortonworks
We’ve probably all heard the famous quote by John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: “Half the money I spend...
2014-02-24
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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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