Extended Events: Queries and Waits
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to put together queries and waits at the same time? You all capture query metrics using some method. Most of us query...
2020-03-30
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Blog Posts
It’s Not April Fools – Redgate Streamed is Coming
Next week is April 1, typically April Fools Day, where we have jokes, pranks, and false stories. I’ve done my share of them, but this isn’t one. With the...
2020-03-30 (first published: 2020-03-25)
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Living with Bipolar During a Pandemic
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone...
2020-03-30
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T-SQL Tuesday Live–31 Mar 2020
I’m hosting another live T-SQL Tuesday event tomorrow, which is really just a casual video meeting for anyone that wants to join and take a break from work, life,...
2020-03-30
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Why you should never use default string lengths.
TL;DR; You probably don’t know what you’re going to get. Even if you do know the person maintaining your code ... Continue reading
2020-03-30 (first published: 2020-03-25)
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Probing Columnstore Indexes
In this article, our focus will be to test, the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload, for real-time analytics.
We'll cover examples from each of...
2020-03-29
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Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-03-29
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COVID-19, a wake-up call
COVID-19 is the only pandemic I’ve seen in my whole life. It gave me a whole new percepective of the life. Kaal (Time) is mightiest of everyone and everything....
2020-03-28
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
12 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers