Leveraging WHILE LOOP
WHILE LOOP can be used for batch processing and can be helpful if you are dealing with huge data processing. Recently I did an analytics project where I had...
2019-10-09
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Blog Posts
Speaker at SQL Saturday# 908 – Denver 2019
I’m very happy to announce that this will be my second time participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 908 in Denver! Here are the details of the session...
2019-10-09
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SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure
Let’s create a virtual machine in Azure that has an imaged copy of SQL Server on it. I want to do this because down the line I want to...
2019-10-09
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Using indexed views? Don’t forget this important tip.
Today after fighting with designing a view that let me create a clustered index on it (indexed views — also known as materialized views — are awesome in the right context!),...
2019-10-09
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Communicating Effectively at the Workplace
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #119 prompt by Alex Yates. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-10-08
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Communicating Effectively at the Workplace
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #119 prompt by Alex Yates. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-10-08
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Graph – Shortest Path
‘Shortest path’ is by far the most feature of SQL Graph for now. What does this even mean? ‘Shortest path’ is the term accorded to the shortest distance between...
2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-22)
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Power BI for Communication and Marketing
We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I...
2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-26)
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SQL in the City/PASS Summit
My great organization, Redgate, is doing things a little different this year at PASS Summit. Instead of hosting our own event, we’ve decided to host a pre-con at the...
2019-10-08
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SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMV's at GroupBy
Excited to be presenting at virtual GroupBy Conference for the first time on Thursday, during the North America time slots. I just finished tuning up this old presentation that I've presented...
2019-10-08
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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...
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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