How to find blocked processes
Blocked processes are often a big problem for DBAs, because they’re difficult to monitor. We receive desperate calls saying “Everything...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-10-30)
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle House Prices. The background and info on my session...
2015-10-30
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle...
2015-10-30
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PASS Summit Key Note Day 2 – Recap
As I sit here in an offshoot of the convention center, I started reflecting back to this morning’s keynote for...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 71 (“Change Data Capture, Change Tracking & Temporal”)
Continuation from the previous 70 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In the SQL Server world of data...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit Session Follow-up: The Plan Cache Whisperer
I’ve wrapped up my session at my first session at this year’s PASS Summit. My session this Thursday was The Plan...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 70 (“Filtered Indexes in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 69 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is the continuation from...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015: So Far
It’s Kilt Day!
I want to give a quick assessment on how the Summit has been for me so far. Monday,...
2015-10-29
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Default Sessions
The focus of this article will be to introduce the default sessions deployed with SQL Server. Some of these are internal and "private" while others are more "public" and...
2015-10-29
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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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