Unexpected truncation in FETCH
Yes I’m talking about FETCH as in a cursor, yes everyone hates cursors. But you know cursors are like anything...
2013-10-23
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Blog Posts
Webcast Follow-Up: Choosing Your Clustered Index
Earlier this month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on the selecting the clustered index for a...
2013-10-23
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Webcast Follow-Up: How Do Non-Clustered Indexes Improve Performance?
Earlier this month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on the selecting the clustered index for a...
2013-10-23
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Back to basics: Transact-SQL programming fundamentals – (Part 1)
SQL Server users use Transact-SQL programming to create sets of statements for ad-hoc execution. The aim of the Transact-SQL programming...
2013-10-22
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Back to basics: Transact-SQL programming fundamentals – (Part 2)
In the first of this three-part series, you will learned how to use scripts and batches, and basics of T-SQL...
2013-10-22
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Children at Technical Conferences
I have had the pleasure of taking my son with me on a number of trips where I was a...
2013-10-22
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Monitoring Structure Changes
Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...
2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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PASS Summit 2013
Adam and I attended PASS Summit for the first time this year in Charlotte, NC. We had a great time...
2013-10-22
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PASS Summit 2013
Adam and I attended PASS Summit for the first time this year in Charlotte, NC. We had a great time and enjoyed meeting new people. The following are a...
2013-10-22
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PASS Summit 2013
Adam and I attended PASS Summit for the first time this year in Charlotte, NC. We had a great time and enjoyed meeting new people. The following are a...
2013-10-22
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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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