Network throughput testing with iperf3
Have you ever wondered if that black box in your datacenter called the network is performing as well as it...
2015-10-13
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PASS Speaker Idol 2015 – Todd Kleinhans
To All-
I am truly grateful I have been selected for this unique contest: http://www.dcac.co/your-pass-speaker-idol-2015-top-12-are
Good luck to all of my fellow...
2015-10-13
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Running Parameterized Queries against SQL Server using PowerShell
For many years I didn’t really think about the implications of how I was retrieving data from my SQL Servers...
2015-10-13
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Putting Corrections in Perspective using Power BI
My enthusiasm for analyzing stock market data using Power BI – even after publishing two posts recently (this and this) – is at...
2015-10-13
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Intro to Reading Event_File Target Data
The event_file target is an asynchronous consumer for Extended Events. This target stores the received payload in a proprietary binary format. Because of this, one needs to use the...
2015-10-13
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Intro to Reading Event_File Target Data
Having covered the metadata for a deployed session from just about every angle (yes there is more on metadata that could...
2015-10-13
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Keep an eye on those Audit files!
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday (#71) is hosted by Sebastian Meine (b/t). He has picked an interesting security subject. SQL Server...
2015-10-13
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SQL server Encryption – Transparent Data Encryption
In the previous blogs we saw the use of certificates to encapsulate symmetric keys. How it benefits the user by...
2015-10-13
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A tSQLt Mistake – Debugging a Test
While I was working on a test the other day, it kept failing. Not a big surprise, but I couldn’t...
2015-10-12
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A tSQLt Mistake – Debugging a Test
While I was working on a test the other day, it kept failing. Not a big surprise, but I couldn’t...
2015-10-12
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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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