Famous Move Quotes–Visualized
Ran across this poster of movie quotes – $20 will get you a copy. Why might you be interested? The visualizations...
2014-01-31
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Blog Posts
Friday Followup For January 31, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-01-31
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Honored to be added to SQLRockstar’s SQL Server blog rankings
Today I woke up to find that Thomas LaRock (blog | twitter | linkedin) has added me to his SQL Server Blogger...
2014-01-31
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Master Data Services (Second Edition) – Review
For the preparation of my upcoming talk about SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services on the Microsoft Business Analytics Day...
2014-01-31
1,926 reads
My Visual Studio crashed and I didn't know why!
Recently I had to develop a simple ETL task with the help of SSIS to transfer an Excel data file...
2014-01-31
1,320 reads
PowerShell – Memory Details GUI Tool
This Powershell Memory GUI tool is used to fetch memory information from a computer. In the screen that follows, enter...
2014-01-31 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Powershell in a Month Day 14 – WMI
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in...
2014-01-31
1,750 reads
Reblog: January 24 to January 30
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-01-31
1,393 reads
See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)
Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He...
2014-01-31
1,158 reads
SQL Prompt – new features in version 6.x
I’ve been using SQL Prompt for years. In September 2013, version 6 was released (quickly followed by 6.1 in late...
2014-01-31 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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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...
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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