Book Review: T-SQL Window Functions by Itzik Ben-Gan
A couple of years back Itzik Ben-Gan (the T-SQL guru) wrote the book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. It’s has been one of my most...
2019-12-19
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Blog Posts
Cloudbrew 2019 – Slides
Cloudbrew 2019 is over and it was a great event. Great speakers and a big audience. Even in my session there were a lot of attendees, which I found...
2019-12-19
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Cloudbrew 2019 – Slides
Cloudbrew 2019 is over and it was a great event. Great speakers and a big audience. Even in my session there were a lot of attendees, which I found...
2019-12-19
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New Power BI Report Design Pre-Con in 2020
I’m excited to announce that I will be offering a full-day pre-con about Power BI report design in the coming year called Bookmarks, brain pixels, and bar charts: creating...
2019-12-19 (first published: 2019-12-05)
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One-Click Package Restart in SSIS
This quick tip is likely to be the most brief of the entire collection, but is also one of the most practical. When testing SSIS packages during development in...
2019-12-19
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SQL Server Christmas Script
Nothing much to say but I hope you all have a nice break. Thanks for the support and reading my blog. Enjoy the script! (Might not format correctly here...
2019-12-19
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Why You Should Take the 2020 State of Database DevOps Survey today (video)
In this six minute video, I explain why you should take the 2020 State of Database DevOps Survey. The survey is open for a few more days — we’ve...
2019-12-19
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Compression in SQL Server: COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS
On Twitter recently, I asked: Does anyone I know use the COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS features in T-SQL? To those who replied in the affirmative, I asked: What made you...
2019-12-18
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Database Reliability Engineering (22 minute video)
I was fascinated yesterday to come across the term, “Database Reliability Engineering,” which I hadn’t seen before. In this 22 minute whiteboarding session, I talk about why we need...
2019-12-18
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Distributing Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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