Major Cloud Outage impacts Google Compute Engine – Were you prepared?
Google first reported an “Issue” on Jun 2, 2019 at 12:25 PDT. As is now common in any type of disaster, reports of this outage first appeared on social...
2019-06-03
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Blog Posts
SQL Homework – June 2019 – Property functions
Yep. It’s time for your monthly homework session. You’ve finished last months right? Please turn it in over there. This ... Continue reading
2019-06-03
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
Hello Baton Rouge! David Pless and I will be teaching an all day workshop on Performance Tuning and Optimization for Modern Workloads (SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL Database, and...
2019-06-03
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
Hello Baton Rouge! David Pless and I will be teaching an all day workshop on Performance Tuning and Optimization for Modern Workloads (SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL Database, and...
2019-06-03
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Turning a Corporate Color Palette into a Data Visualization Color Palette
Last week, I had a conversation on twitter about dealing with corporate color palettes that don’t work well for data visualization. Usually, this happens because corporate palettes are designed...
2019-06-03 (first published: 2019-05-16)
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Using Extended Events To Capture Backup and Restore Progress
If you are running a DATABASE BACKUP or RESTORE command manually, SQL Server will show you the progress at a specified % completion interval. For the BACKUP, the default is...
2019-06-03 (first published: 2019-05-16)
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Weekly reading #0x10
This is the blog anniversary! 16th Weekly reading has come into the light! For great articles and a video wait for you! Report Parameter Support for Paginated Report E-Mail...
2019-06-03
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Which Query Used the Most CPU? Implementing Extended Events
A question that comes up on the forums all the time: Which query used the most CPU. You may see variations on, memory, I/O, or just resources in general....
2019-06-03
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Keynoting at SQL Saturday #831–Christchurch
After our SQL in the City Summit in Brisbane last week, Hamish Watson () asked me if I’d do a short version of my keynote talk at the upcoming...
2019-06-02
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Thanks for joining us at SQLSaturday Dallas!
Thanks for joining hundreds of SQL pros from around the country today at UTDallas!Here's my session downloads from my presentation today at 1:15 in room 1.102, there's a handy...
2019-06-01
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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...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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