What is the max/min size of a decimal data type?
Recently, I wrote a maintenance script to check every table in every database on our servers at work nightly and...
2016-05-31
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“Tuesday Morning” SQL Break – May 31, 2016
Yesterday it was Monday, which is when I usually aim to post a weekly blog and twitter round-up. But since I...
2016-05-31
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Running Multiple Threads Quickly
Recently I was looking to generate a quick workload against an instance. I wanted to add to the amount of...
2016-05-31
1,052 reads
Analyzing David and Goliath datasets on a same chart; Dual Axis in Excel, Power BI and SSRS
[2016-May-31] Two different metrics, two different datasets, one may represent a very high value and the other one is very low....
2016-05-31
1,705 reads
THE SQL Server 2016 NYC Launch Event Schedule
Presenting the OFFICIAL SQL Server 2016 NYC Launch Event Schedule for Thursday, June 2, 2016, just ONE day after the...
2016-05-31
1,965 reads
Precedence Goes to Query Store or Plan Guide?
While presenting at SQLDay in Wroclaw, Poland, on the Query Store, I was asked a pretty simple question, which takes...
2016-05-31
943 reads
Power BI Desktop May 2016 Update Info: Conditional Formatting and Quick Calc
*Update: The Power BI team has finally published a blog post with all the new features and its glorious! Read...
2016-05-31
1,319 reads
I hate saying no
I really do. There is a joke that DBAs say no to everything and there is some truth to that....
2016-05-31
755 reads
Conditional Formatting and Quick Calcs in Power BI Desktop
There’s a new update out of Power BI Desktop (May 2016), but at the time of writing there’s no official...
2016-06-07 (first published: 2016-05-31)
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 7.4: The Cramér–von Mises Criterion
By Steve Bolton
…………This last installment of this series of amateur tutorials features a goodness-of-fit metric that is closely related to...
2016-05-31
1,178 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
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Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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