SQL Server Locks – Back to Basics
Prelude in SQL Minor
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to...
2016-03-08 (first published: 2016-03-01)
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Trekking through the DAX Jungle In Search of Lost Customers
I like to think I’m proficient at writing DAX and building SSAS tabular models. I enjoy a good challenge and...
2016-03-01
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Installation of SQL Server (Part 2 - Post-installation)
Previously we discussed about the pre-installation consideration, which can be found here. In the second part of this series, we...
2016-03-01
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 6.1: The Shapiro-Wilk Test
By Steve Bolton
…………Just as a good garage mechanic will fill his or her Craftsman with tools designed to fix specific...
2016-03-08 (first published: 2016-02-29)
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PowerShell – Backup Individual database and delete all it’s respective files by keeping a recent file
Problem Statement
The requirement is to backup individual database and after successful backup the script should retain the most recent file...
2016-03-09 (first published: 2016-02-29)
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Wait Statistics in Azure SQL Database
You need to be aware that you’re going to see differences when you’re working with Azure SQL Database when it...
2016-03-07 (first published: 2016-02-29)
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SQL Saturday Chicago Precon – SQL Server Infrastructure – This Friday
This Friday I will be holding a precon training session at the next SQL Saturday in Chicago called ‘SQL Server Infrastructure...
2016-02-29
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Blogger questions: How often should I blog?
What with the #sqlnewblogger effort we’ve been seeing a lot of new bloggers (and some old ones starting up again)...
2016-03-04 (first published: 2016-02-29)
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Goodbye Pragmatic Works
Normally when I write a blog, I start out will a Hello to my Dear Reader. Not today. This was almost a blog I didn't write because I...
2016-02-29
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Goodbye Pragmatic Works
Normally when I write a blog, I start out will a Hello to my Dear Reader. Not today. This was...
2016-02-29
981 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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