Security Questions: Prioritizing Security
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...
2013-07-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for July 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2013-07-09
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SQL Server: Part 4 : All About SQL Server Statistics : Auto Update Statistics Threshold - Importance of Manual statistics maintenance
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto create and auto update property of the statistics. Do we...
2013-07-09 (first published: 2013-07-02)
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SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto update statistics threshold and concluded that auto updated statistics threshold are good enough to get optimal performance in some workload. In...
2013-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #44 - Second Chances
So, it’s Tuesday and its that time again for T-SQL Tuesday. We’re at the 44th entry which means it’s been...
2013-07-09
1,837 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #44 How to Take Down Prod in 30 Seconds
Hello Dear Reader! Welcome to my blog on T-SQL Tuesday #44 Second Chances. I’m hosting this month, and we are...
2013-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...
2013-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #44–Second Chances
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. This is the monthly blog party, started by Adam Machanic. If you’d like to participate,...
2013-07-09
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We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced
Power BI: a new suite of Business Intelligence tools Over the past few months, teams at Microsoft have made several...
2013-07-09
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In Memory OLTP with SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014 CTP is available for download and evaluation and it contains a couple of exciting performance enhancements. One...
2013-07-08
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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