Partitioning 1: Non-partition aligned queries
Here’s my take on partitioning. I’ll be focusing on getting queries to perform on partitioned tables, and not on partition...
2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-11)
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Blog Posts
Proposed SQL Server defaults: disable priority boost
A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set...
2019-02-27
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Query Store and a READ_ONLY Database
What happens in Query Store when the database itself is READ_ONLY? Yeah, I don’t know. Let’s find out. READ_ONLY The...
2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-11)
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Using Github as a repository for SQL Server Helm Charts
In a previous post I ran through how to create a custom SQL Server Helm chart.
Now that the chart has...
2019-02-27
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Why i choose to use memory optimized table in MS SQL Server in some circumstances
MSSQL SERVERI was supporting an application which will be making a lot of concurrent calls to the database. The application which will be widely used and it will be...
2019-02-27
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Why i choose to use memory optimized table in MS SQL Server in some circumstances
MSSQL SERVERI was supporting an application which will be making a lot of concurrent calls to the database. The application which will be widely used and it will be...
2019-02-27
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#ConditionalCode in Python with Dominika
Here it is! The second article about Python! This time I have described how tou use simple conditional code in...
2019-02-26
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Azure SQL Database and Trace Flags
You cannot enable trace flags (globally or by session) within Azure SQL Database but did you know that some global...
2019-02-26
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Checking Progress of the Creation of your Azure Resources
When I’ve created resources in Azure it’s usually taken from a few minutes and up to quarter of an hour...
2019-02-26
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 7: Creating Tables
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...
2019-02-26
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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