Work Ethic and Family – A Tribute to My Parents
A tribute is an expression of gratitude or praise. A couple of years ago, I started a series about individuals...
2014-01-09
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Blog Posts
[Video] ApexSQL Log – Software Review
Today I will be reviewing the product ApexSQL Log which is a tool designed for Transaction Log discovery and recovery....
2014-01-08
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Apply SP1 to SQL Server 2012 on active/active Windows Server 2012 cluster.
A while ago I blogged my about my approach to service packing a SQL Server 2008R2 active active cluster. Time...
2014-01-08
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Being a Better IT Pro – Keep It Short
Keep your emails and communications as short as possible.
Make sure you cover everything you absolutely need to, but nothing more....
2014-01-08
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Changes to PASS Voting Eligibility
There was a blurb in the Connector today about an eligibility change for voting. The “change” is a requirement to...
2014-01-08
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Cleaning up the Buffer Pool to Increase PLE
Chances are you have extra information in the buffer pool for a bad query and it’s dragging down your PLE,...
2014-01-08
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Jan 8th – Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group - Azure
Please join us tonight, Wednesday Jan 8th starting at 5:45PM with networking and food. The information below is from the...
2014-01-08
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MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here....
2014-01-08 (first published: 2014-01-05)
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Power BI Contest Entry
Today I submitted my Power BI contest entry and I’d love for you to take a look! Here’s a short...
2014-01-08
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Powershell – Age of File Report – Local or Remote
Here’s a very quick post by request.I just had a request for searching the file system for files matching certain...
2014-01-08
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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...
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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