SQL Server 2014 and the New Cardinality Estimator
Cardinality, basically the number of rows being processed by an operation with the optimizer, is a calculation predicated on the...
2014-02-12
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Blog Posts
The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read
Such as: Often, the best candidate for a given job isn’t the person who’s most skilled at fulfilling its primary...
2014-02-12
264 reads
Time Management: Strategies for CEOs and CFOs In the Midmarket
Time management resources for CEOs and CFOs
1. “An Approach To Developing People.”
One way to gain more time is to properly...
2014-02-12
359 reads
Winner – Conference Pass to #SQLServerLive in Las Vegas
This is a quick post to announce the winner of my blog giveaway for a free conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Las Vegas. Those rather nice folks at SQL Server Live are also offering...
2014-02-12
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Winner – Conference Pass to #SQLServerLive in Las Vegas
This is a quick post to announce the winner of my blog giveaway for a free conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Las Vegas.
Those...
2014-02-12
727 reads
#TSQL2sDay – Data marts across a shaky WAN link
It sounded good in principle, especially given the requirements and the limitations:
We needed our various sites to be able to...
2014-02-11
710 reads
[SQL Snacks Video] The What, Why, and How of Instant File Initialization with SQL Server
Instant File Initialization (IFI) is an interesting topic with regards to how SQL Server works with storage. It is an...
2014-02-11
647 reads
175 Analytic and Data Science Web Sites #bigdata #freedata #analytics #datascience
Following is a list (in alphabetical order) of top domains related to analytics, data science or big data, based on...
2014-02-11
461 reads
8 Proven Steps to Starting a Big Data Analytics Project #bigdata #analytics
AN EIGHT-STEP APPROACH TO A BIG DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT
We’ve created a high-level list that speaks to 8 different steps to...
2014-02-11
762 reads
Book Review: The Phoenix Project
Let’s get this straight right up front, the thought of reading a novel that’s about IT is so repellent, so...
2014-02-11 (first published: 2014-02-05)
1,933 reads
Blogs
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...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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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