Customer Satisfaction Survey
We decided to create a customer satisfaction survey and send it to all our customers. The goal of this post...
2017-09-01
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.1: The Uses and Abuses of Shannon’s Entropy
By Steve Bolton
…………In the first installment of this wide-ranging series of amateur tutorials, I noted that the Hartley function indeed...
2017-08-31
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SQL Server: SARGability
SARG is short for Search Argument. This is an important tuning term and something every developer and DBA should know....
2017-08-31
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Bulk Inserting Build Data–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-08-31
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Azure Archive Blob Storage
Last week Microsoft released a public preview of a new service called Azure Archive Blob Storage, offering customers a lower-cost...
2017-08-31
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Automatic Seeding & Compression
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2017-08-31
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Getting the Hyperlink from Excel
I had a spreadsheet of data that contained hyperlinks. In this case, it was a series of Microsoft Knowledge Base...
2017-08-30
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Columnstore Indexes – part 111 (“Row Group Elimination – Pain Points”)
Continuation from the previous 110 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
The topic of the Segment Elimination (aka...
2017-08-30
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What you need to know about memory limits on SQL Server
Last week, I posted this statement on Twitter, along with a screen capture of the official Microsoft documentation: Reminder: Max...
2017-08-30
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System-Versioned Temporal Tables
Every once in a while, I like to take a moment and learn something new about the latest SQL Server...
2017-08-30
1,206 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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