Guid vs Identity columns (Ints)
I came across an interesting question on SE last week. Guid vs INT – Which is better as a primary key?...
2014-01-20 (first published: 2014-01-13)
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Blog Posts
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #67
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-20
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Monitor availability groups and availability replicas status information using T-SQL
Just a quick blog post to share a query, which I wrote to monitor availability groups and replicas and the...
2014-01-20
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New Blog Series: Parent-Child Architecture in SSIS
I’m kicking off a new series of blog posts discussing the topic of parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services....
2014-01-20
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NJSQL User Group Presents In-Memory OLTP for SQL Server
If your local to the NY/NJ area, please see tomorrow night's agenda for SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP feature! Microsoft...
2014-01-20
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Power BI Contest Entry Voting
You’ve watched my video (hopefully) now vote for it! In a previous post I wrote about my Power BI contest...
2014-01-20
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PowerShell – Program List – 32/64 Bit – Local/Remote Machies
This Powershell script list all the installed application on both 32 and 64 bit applications, particularly useful for people managing...
2014-01-20
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Powershell in a Month Day 11 – Filtering
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...
2014-01-20
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Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure
After I read Greg Low’s post and my initial try, I kept on thinking that I need to come up...
2014-01-20
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Schema-only Backups and Restores
I was reading the blog post Time for a Quick Rant by Grant Fritchey (blog|@GFritchey) about people who choose to...
2014-01-20
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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...
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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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