Power BI Q&A Preview Now Live On Your Data
With the recent updates to the Power BI preview and Q&A features added I thought I would do a quick...
2013-12-18
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Blog Posts
Speaking in 2014
I love that I get to travel around and learn from my #sqlfamily. We’re still filling in the majority of...
2013-12-18
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2013-12-18
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SQL Server monitoring and optimization
To optimize the performance of your database, you need to monitor and tune. You determine the performance baseline, how SQL...
2013-12-18
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Traveling in 2013
It was a busy year for me. As I look back at my speaking CV for 2013, here’s what I...
2013-12-18
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Using Power Query to Parse your Inbox
One of the nice new features that was added to Power Query with the latest update in December is the...
2013-12-18 (first published: 2013-12-13)
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2014 Event Kickoff
I know that this coming year, 2014, is going to be my best year yet! I’m starting 2014 off with...
2013-12-17
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Changed SoundEx Disables Index While Upgrading to SQL 2012
Implementation of SoundEx function is changed in SQL Server 2012, described here. For an example, the result of SOUNDEX(‘Csomorova’) in SQL Server 2012 is C561 whereas the result of...
2013-12-17
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Changed SoundEx Disables Index While Upgrading to SQL 2012
Implementation of SoundEx function is changed in SQL Server 2012, described here. For an example, the result of SOUNDEX(‘Csomorova’) in...
2013-12-17
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Collecting Historical IO File Statistics
In a previous post, Collecting Historical Wait Statistics, I discussed how you can easily collect historical wait stats by using...
2013-12-17
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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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