Find Skew in Distributed Tables
The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the...
2012-09-11
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Blog Posts
Going to San Diego (#SQLSat157)
It appears that I signed up to speak at the San Diego SQL Saturday coming up this weekend. I knew...
2012-09-11
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Quick tip: Querying database metadata with DBCC DBINFO
Page 9 in file 1 (of the primary filegroup) in a SQL Server database is the header page and contains...
2012-09-11
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Talking Career and Unstructured Data
The Denver SQL Saturday is coming in less than two weeks, SQL Saturday #169 is our second event in Denver,...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday – Help! I Need Somebody
By Jennifer Salvo
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #34 hosted by Rob Volk (B, T). This month’s topic is ‘Help! I Need...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #34 – Help! I Need Somebody
I couldn’t resist, so here goes….
Help, I need some data,
Help, not just any data,
Help, I was told you...
2012-09-11
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Colorado SQL - September 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS SQL
September 19, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Location: Hyatt Place - Garden of the Gods, 503 West Garden of the Gods...
2012-09-10
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Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups
Odd Man Out
SQL Server has three backup types. Two you have heard of and used. One, while useful, isn’t very well understood.
Let’s...
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-09-06)
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EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
750 reads
Have You Seen This Error?
location: AppendOnlyVerStoreMgr.cpp:776
Expression: 0
SPID: 64
Process ID: 4912
Description: Cannot locate version record and page is not allocated. Status = 3
Msg 3624, Level 20,...
2012-09-10
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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