Is That Database in Use?
This article demonstrates how to use Extended Events to determine if a database is being used by someone or something.
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2019-07-03
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Data Platform for 2019-2020
Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been renewed as an Microsoft MVP – Data Platform for the 2019-2020 award year, my third MVP award. This is an truly an honor and...
2019-07-03
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Data Platform for 2019-2020
Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been renewed as an Microsoft MVP – Data Platform for the 2019-2020 award year, my third MVP award. This is an truly an honor and...
2019-07-03
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Performance Tuning Steps a Query by looking an execution plan and effectiveness of the index creation Part-1
The index is very important and powerful object...
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2019-07-03
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Renewed As A Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I am so excited and honored to have been awarded my second Data Platform MVP from Microsoft on Monday. It’s been a crazy busy 18 months and the next...
2019-07-03
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user’s input...
2019-07-03 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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Behind the Scenes: How I Create Weekly Technical Videos
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Today I want to share my process for blogging and making weekly YouTube videos.
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2019-07-02
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Behind the Scenes: How I Create Weekly Technical Videos
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Today I want to share my process for blogging and making weekly YouTube videos.
I've been hesitant to write this post because of how much...
2019-07-02
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 9: ILIKE
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-07-02 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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Join a List of Values
There are multiple ways of retrieving data from a table when you have a list of values. This article explores the use of the table value constructor.
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2019-07-02
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I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
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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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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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