Sonic Drive-in CIO on learning to embrace #bigdata and #cloud computing
Tracking 3,500 stores with your hands tied
One major problem is that Sonic has more than 3,500 stores across the United...
2014-02-14
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #51: Doubledown disaster
Jason Brimhall is hosting the 51st T-SQL Tuesday this month with “Place your bets!.
It’s always a gamble when buying a...
2014-02-14 (first published: 2014-02-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #51: Is this a bet worth making?
On the second Tuesday of each month, the SQL Server universe all comes together to blog about a topic. Known...
2014-02-14 (first published: 2014-02-11)
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Why is Your SQL Server Slow? All-for-one and One-for-all
I have one more thing I want to talk about regarding the conversation I had recently with my friends and...
2014-02-14
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2014 #Cloud Services Trends
The major strides achieved in IT in 2013 are possibly a hint of what to expect in 2014. The leading...
2014-02-13
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Building a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V
I needed to get this one on Hyper-V, so I decided to document the process. I’ve put together a series...
2014-02-13
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FIGlet SQLCLR ASCII Font Art
If you haven’t heard of the name before, you must have seen what it does at some point. FIGlet which...
2014-02-13
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How Big Data Will Transform Coaching in the NBA #miamiheat #bigdata #nba
There’s a staggering amount of information an NBA coach would have to hold in his head to do his job...
2014-02-13 (first published: 2014-02-11)
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How to guarantee big ROI on big data #bigdata #ROI
I will start this article with an analogy:
Processing big data with small data technology is like building an 80-story skyscraper...
2014-02-13
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Master of Data Science: Analytics for the 21st Century #datascience #bigdata
The IIT Master of Data Science (MAS DS) is designed for bright, curious students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, computation,...
2014-02-13
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Blogs
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...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
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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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