Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
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Blog Posts
Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a...
2014-01-06
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Posts I've Found Interesting:
This is a question I had until I came across a great script by The Scripting Guys. The script below...
2014-01-06
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PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell
Method 1: Environment Variable
PS:\>$ENV:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
Method 2: Using Win32_OperatingSystem
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $computername).OSArchitecture
Method 3: Using Win32_Processor
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Processor -ComputerName $ComputerName| Select-Object AddressWidth
Method 4:[IntPtr]::Size - Gets the...
2014-01-06
2,162 reads
South Alabama Day of .Net
Just received an email from my friend Ryan Duclos announcing the South Alabama Day of .Net in Mobile, Alabama, on...
2014-01-06
342 reads
SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
273 reads
SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
151 reads
SQL Server Quickie #9 – Clustered Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-06
600 reads
MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
17 reads
MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
47 reads
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...
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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