Querying and Optimizing DAX
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been watching some videos from this year’s PASS Summit. One of the presentations I...
2013-01-02
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Blog Posts
Re-Awarded as a Microsoft MVP
Yesterday (January 1) I received the email indicating I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP, once again in SQL Server....
2013-01-02
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sp_spaceused system-stored procedure
You can use the sp_spaceused system-stored procedure to return space usage information about a database or a table within a...
2013-01-02
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SQL Server Consulting–New for 2013
Today is the first full work day for me in 2013 and I though I’d use it to write a...
2013-01-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
Introduction Welcome back for the 38th installment in the wildly popular blog party for the SQL Server community. This is the party that happens on the second Tuesday of...
2013-01-02
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Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals
Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....
2013-01-01
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My 2012 Year
What a wild year this has been. There have been ups and downs, but the ups have been incredible. To...
2013-01-01
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Re-awarded MVP status for 2013
I received notification that I have received the Microsoft MVP award for 2013, my fourth consecutive year to receive this...
2013-01-01
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Re-awarded MVP status for 2013
I received notification that I have received the Microsoft MVP award for 2013, my fourth consecutive year to receive this...
2013-01-01
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VCAP5-DCA study guide is now available
Paul Grevink has released a great study guide for the VMware VCAP5-DCA exam. It’s available here! I’ll be using it...
2013-01-01
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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