SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley) Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries During Peak Hour
Detecting worst performing queries executed in a particular duration and how many times it got executed and fine tuning them...
2016-04-05
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Power BI Embedded is here
The announcement of Power BI Embedded came last week during Microsoft’s Build Conference and now enables software vendors or anyone...
2016-04-05
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Scaling Azure VM’s
There are so many benefits to the cloud, but one of the major features is the ease of use in...
2016-04-05
668 reads
MongoDB -Calculating Collection Size
Calculating Collection Size
We can get the size of a collections by using the shell’s functions
db.collection.dataSize(): Returns data size in bytes...
2016-04-05
680 reads
Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...
2016-04-05
560 reads
SQL Server Service Broker – Conversation Architecture
This post is part of a series on this blog that will explore SQL Server Service Broker, a native messaging...
2016-04-05
687 reads
Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Welcome to this weeks weekly round up of links, SQL Server and other news. Its been a busy week on...
2016-04-05
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SQL Server PerfMon Counters Not Listed in dm_os_performance_counters
Had an issue with a new Azure VM install of SQL Server, but have had this issue in other, older...
2016-04-05
1,514 reads
Locking sa
When I started working with SQL Server, the sa account was “the” account used for admin operations. This was the...
2016-04-04
1,050 reads
Don't Use Delimiters In Your Object Names!
It started with a failed backup status check:
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 73
** Backups listed in this file...
2016-04-04
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers