Analytics Platform System (APS) AU4 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU4),...
2015-08-06
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Connecting, Saving, Discarding, Branching, and Merging in the Big Apple
We’ve got another DLM workshop on Database Source Control taking place in New York City on August 27. It’s in...
2015-08-13 (first published: 2015-08-06)
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Reading Your Execution Plans
I’m putting the finishing touches on the all day seminar on execution plans that I’ll be putting on at DevConnections this...
2015-08-06
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Professional Development – A Recipe for Success
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Joe Webb’s father-in-law spent most of his adult life as a cardiologist. That’s a highly specialized and highly technical area in the field of medicine that...
2015-08-06
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Reblog: The OLE DB Source and the Oracle Date Literal
SQLKover update:when of the stranger Oracle issues I encountered over the years. Some time after I published the original blog...
2015-08-06
821 reads
Running very large scripts is not a strong area for SSMS
out of memory, argggh!
Am I the only one that has experienced the various out of memory issues with SSMS? Not...
2015-08-11 (first published: 2015-08-05)
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PASS Needs You!
It’s time.
No more procrastinating. No more complaining about the process from the outside. No more excuses.
You have to run for...
2015-08-05
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Architecture VC AlwaysOn Questions Answered
On July 15th, 2015 I spoke to the PASS Architecture Virtual Chapter about AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances and AlwaysOn Availability...
2015-08-05
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Using Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrongs Spacesuit
Ran across this while visiting the Air & Space Museum over the summer, the Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise...
2015-08-05
679 reads
Iterate Over Web Pages Using Power Query
Power Query makes it easy to pull data from a web page. As easy as deflating a football. Poof. Gone. However,...
2015-08-10 (first published: 2015-08-05)
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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