Book Review: SQL Server 2017 on Linux
I don’t have any statistics but I think most IT Professionals in the SQL Server field are managing or developing...
2019-01-11
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Blog Posts
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 2: LISTAGG
I’m starting 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 share....
2019-01-11
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Execution plans: RetrievedFromCache
I first came across the value for RetrievedFromCache when I was reading a confusing execution plan. At first, I thought...
2019-01-11
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Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook
I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me...
2019-01-11 (first published: 2019-01-01)
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#SQLCareer 4/4 January 2nd 2019
Last July (yes, it’s taken me 5+ months to finally finish this) Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be...
2019-01-10
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Automatic Tuning Monitoring and Diagnostics
Cool new toys/tools have been made available to the data professional. Among these tools are query data store and automatic...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-04)
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Big Changes for WaterOx Consulting
March of 2019 would have marked that start of the 8th year of WaterOx Consulting, Inc. running. That isn’t going...
2019-01-10
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Donating Hair Again
There are several organizations which take hair donations, but the one I prefer to donate to is Wigs for Kids,...
2019-01-10
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New vCore Compute Levels for Azure SQL Database and Elastic Pools
Additional vCore-based elastic pools and single databases have been expanded for the general purpose, business critical, and hyperscale service tiers....
2019-01-10
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Power BI World Tour 2019 Tampa
In just a few weeks (Jan 21-22) I will be presenting on two topics at the Power BI World Tour...
2019-01-10
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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
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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Question of the Day
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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