Never an Infinite Loop Around When You Need One
You may be thinking, “You’re a DBA. I thought DBAs hated infinite loops.” Well, you’re right, most of the time....
2013-12-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday DC Lessons Learned – Humility, Paying it Forward, and Dedication
This past weekend I attended SQL Saturday #233 in Washington DC. I presented a session this year titled “Backup and...
2013-12-09
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SQL Server Training in London this Christmas
If you are thinking of upgrading to SQL Server 2012 in the near future then why not join me in...
2013-12-09
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SSAS – Setting Attributes as Properties for Excel
When a user is browsing your cube with excel they may not understand how to slice the data and end...
2013-12-09
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Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE
I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which is...
2013-12-09
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MDX Order by Multiple Criteria
The MDX language includes an ORDER function that orders members of a set in ascending or descending order based on a numeric (or string) expression. The syntax of the...
2013-12-08
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MDX Order by Multiple Criteria
The MDX language includes an ORDER function that orders members of a set in ascending or descending order based on...
2013-12-08
793 reads
MDX Order by Multiple Criteria
The MDX language includes an ORDER function that orders members of a set in ascending or descending order based on a numeric (or string) expression. The syntax of the...
2013-12-08
18 reads
Gotcha!!! Trying to install SQL Server 2012 on Windows 8.1 Professional
OK, after several tranquillizers and much grey hair, I found out why SQL Server 2012 will NOT install on Windows...
2013-12-07
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My First Windows Update Gone Bad
I don’t think I’ve ever had a Windows Update go bad - until this week.
I recently upgraded to Office 2013 and late Monday afternoon, decided to check in with...
2013-12-07
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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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