Moving 1/3 of a heap
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A Giant Heap
Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don't ask me why this 3.5 billion...
2020-07-22
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Bert Wagner
COMING SOON – New Content
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven’t been any videos in a while. If you are...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON - New Content
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Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON - New Content
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Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on...
2020-01-14 (first published: 2020-01-07)
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
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This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on Twitter...
2020-01-07
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
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This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on Twitter...
2020-01-07
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements? As you might have guessed, the first conversion truncates the value,...
2019-12-17
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
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Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
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Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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