One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time. I have...
2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)
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Blog Posts
Session Files from SQL Saturday #107 Houston
Session Files from SQL Saturday #107 Houston
Houston Skyline
SQL Saturday Houston was a great event hosted by the Houston Area SQL...
2012-05-15
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Setting up transactional replication using T-SQL
Replication is one of the more complex of the SQL native “HA/DR” technologies. There are a lot of moving parts....
2012-05-15
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SQL Rally 2012 Recap and Session Files
SQL Rally 2012 Recap and Session Files
Dallas Convention Center
SQL Rally 2012 was hosted by the North Texas SQL Server User...
2012-05-15
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SQL Rally Slide Deck and Photos
I’m working on a more comprehensive review of last week’s SQL Rally event, but I’d like to go ahead and...
2012-05-15
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SQL Rally Slide Deck and Photos
I’m working on a more comprehensive review of last week’s SQL Rally event, but I’d like to go ahead and...
2012-05-15
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SQLRally Dallas Slides
I was fortunate enough to get to present not 1 but 2 sessions at SQLRally 2012 in Dallas last week. ...
2012-05-15
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The Cloud is Nothing New
Cloud computing doesn’t seem to have any great definition. Like the physical structures is is named for, it is amorphous,...
2012-05-15
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Create a Filestream Filegroup for Filetables – SQL Server 2012
Once you’ve enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data....
2012-05-14
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Data Warehouse vs Data Mart
I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart....
2012-05-14
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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