Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019
With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most likely...
2018-09-26
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Blog Posts
Book Review – Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE
Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)...
2018-09-26
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CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 2 – Parametrization of Dynamic SQL
Intro
In the last blog I showed how important statistics are for CCI bulk load even on small tables. This time...
2018-09-26
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Cloud ETL for the Modern Enterprise Workshop
We are introducing a new workshop focused on Cloud ETL. ETL, or Extract, Transfer and Load, is nothing new and...
2018-09-26
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Coming Soon to Minnesota...Lincoln...and Seattle!!!
It's that time of year when SQLSaturdays start to slow down (in the U.S. anyway) as we march towards Summit...
2018-09-26
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Faking Temporal Tables with Triggers
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #106 prompt by Steve Jones. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-09-26 (first published: 2018-09-11)
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I’m Giving Four Free Sessions in October!
I’ve got FOUR sessions coming up in October. These sessions will each be 30 minutes. Redgate Sessions Wed, Oct 3, 9AM PT / 12PM ET: How to Lead DBAs...
2018-09-26
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My Experiences Tech Editing Pro SQL Server on Linux
The Opportunity Earlier this year I received an email from Jonathan Gennick, an editor at Apress books. The subject of the email was “Tech edit a book” and he...
2018-09-26
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My Experiences Tech Editing Pro SQL Server on Linux
The Opportunity
Earlier this year I received an email from Jonathan Gennick, an editor at Apress books. The subject of the...
2018-09-26
283 reads
sqlhelp: limit the x-axis of a geometry line graph
I have a #sqlhelp question that requires some code. So hey, blog post time! TL;DR: the geometry::STGeomFromText graph provides too wide...
2018-09-26
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Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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