Apathy – A quick path to the naughty list.
It’s the Christmas season! And it’s T-SQL Tuesday! And Bradley Ball (b/t), SQL’s very own superhero (one of many really...
2015-12-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #73 - Not Running CHECKDB is Naughty!
This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradley Balls (blog/@SQLBalls) and his topic of choice is “Naughty or Nice.”
(If you...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-08)
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SQL SERVER – Random function in Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016 CTP 3
Hi friends, With new CTP version of SQL Server 2016 many new functionality are added and modified. As with introduction...
2015-12-08
588 reads
SQL Cruise Caribbean 2016 is almost here!
Want to get out of the winter blues and into some warmer weather for some deep SQL Server training? Join...
2015-12-07
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Monday Morning SQL Break – December 7, 2015
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2015-12-07
447 reads
#SQLFamily Feud
I’ve started a new project. Actually, I started this well over a year ago, but I lost track of it...
2015-12-11 (first published: 2015-12-07)
1,884 reads
New Vacancy on the PASS Board
Last week James Rowland-Jones announced that he would be resigning from the PASS Board to accept a position with Microsoft....
2015-12-11 (first published: 2015-12-07)
1,545 reads
Learning R: Foundations
Learning a programming language is largely an act of using that language to do stuff. Done.
However, the big thing about...
2015-12-07
1,261 reads
Performance Tuning with sp_BlitzIndex
Just a small blog post about how I used sp_BlitzIndex for the first and how awesome that was. sp_BlitzIndex is one...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-07)
3,287 reads
Powerful SQL Queries for SQL Server
New Year, new powerful SQL queries!
Start the New Year off with some great Transact-SQL training and join me for...
2015-12-07
455 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
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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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