The Data Saturday Logo Contest
I’ve been helping with the Data Saturdays project, in addition to trying to get SQL Saturday to grow again. Data Saturdays is looking for a logo, as the site...
2021-03-23
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 22 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-22
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Introducing new Stats widgets for iPhone
You may already know that WordPress mobile apps are the easiest way to manage your WordPress site any time, anywhere. Helpful features in the apps include our Stats widgets,...
2021-03-22
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Lesser-known facts of Explicit Transactions
Transactions are of various kinds in SQL Server such as Autocommit, Implicit, Explicit and Batch-scoped. I personally found this article quite helpful if you wish to understand Implicit Transactions....
2021-03-22 (first published: 2021-03-16)
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SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
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SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
13 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
8 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
22 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
6 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-03-22
6 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers