A Few Days Off in Space Country
The new Star Wars film opens today, and while I won’t see it then, perhaps I’ll get to it early...
2015-12-18
631 reads
Speaker of the Month: December 2015
The hardest presentations I’ve ever given in my life were not to large audiences or in big rooms. They weren’t...
2015-12-18
456 reads
How to do Step by Step Merge Join Transformations - #123
In last post tip #122, We discussed Merge transformation. Now in this tip, we are going to discuss Merge Join....
2015-12-31 (first published: 2015-12-18)
2,545 reads
New Whitepaper – SQL Server Licensing Reduction
Poor storage performance continues to be the largest pain point with enterprise Database Administrators in today’s virtual world. However, it...
2015-12-17
1,087 reads
What Permissions Does This Login Have?
I recently was tasked with this ticket:
Please add new login Domain\Bob to server MyServer. Grant the login the same permissions...
2015-12-17
2,190 reads
Could not Register Service Principal Name
Have you ever seen the error below in your SQL Server log shortly after startup? You’ll actually see two of...
2015-12-29 (first published: 2015-12-17)
1,575 reads
SET ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT and QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.
Hi Guys, When you generate a script to create a Stored Procedure, below three statements are generate by default. SET ANSI_NULLS on SET NOCOUNT on SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER on Why do we...
2015-12-17
31 reads
SET ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT and QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.
Hi Guys,
When you generate a script to create a Stored Procedure, below three statements are generate by default.
SET ANSI_NULLS on
SET NOCOUNT on
SET...
2015-12-30 (first published: 2015-12-17)
10,275 reads
Tracking Logins with Extended Events
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
I...
2016-01-01 (first published: 2015-12-16)
4,091 reads
What Alerts Us About The SQL Agent? - Syndication – WaterOx Consulting
The SQL Agent is our friend! Setting up SQL Server Agent to automate jobs and alerts is a great idea....
2015-12-16
715 reads
Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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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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