What is an Identity?
Identity (or AutoNumber) is a column that automatically generates numeric values. A start and increment value can be set, but...
2016-01-26
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What is Normalization in SQL Server?
In relational database design, the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. It usually involves dividing a...
2016-01-26
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What is Power BI?
One of the “benefits” of being a chapter leader is that sometimes it means doing a presentation yourself when you...
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Creating a Database Snapshot
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – January 25, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL)....
2016-01-25
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Finding Your Query in Query Store
Query Store is pretty amazing. I’m loving working with it. I think it’s likely to change how query tuning will...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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From the Power BI dashboard to a specific page in a Report
Recently, I was working with a customer designing Power BI reports and dashboards. Everything was going great until she asked...
2016-01-25
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Reusing schedules in SQL Agent
I’m a big fan of automation. You get it written, tested, and scheduled, then you just sit back and monitor...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Public Speaking – The First Time
Update for T-SQL Tuesday #84
Well, this year I was challenged with the goal of speaking publicly three times, well I blew that out of the water and have spoken...
2016-01-25
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Public Speaking – The First Time
This past week I had the pleasure of speaking for my first time professionally to the Chicago Suburban SQL Server...
2016-01-25
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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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