Partitioning 3: Beyond just partition elimination
In Partitioning 2, I showed how to analyze which partitions were accessed by our Index Seek. However, we were searching...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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Violin Plots in Power BI
In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot.
A violin plot is a...
2019-03-05 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 6: Query History
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-14
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Victoria
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Victoria on Saturday, March 16, 2019. I will be presenting my What is...
2019-02-13
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Victoria
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Victoria on Saturday, March...
2019-02-13
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Free SQL tuning tool: How’s My Database?
It’s taken longer than I thought it may and I’ve run into several problems along the way but had a...
2019-02-13
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Where have I been?
Before you read too far, this is going to be a deeply personal post.Where do I begin? As many of...
2019-02-13
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Adding Objects to our SCA Project
In my last post, I started out with a new SCA project, getting a connection to my database up and...
2019-03-08 (first published: 2019-02-13)
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Proposed SQL Server defaults: cost threshold for parallelism
A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set...
2019-02-13
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Speaking Internationally at SQLBits
I am very excited and lucky to be speaking at my very first international conference, SQLBits. SQLBits, the largest SQL...
2019-02-13
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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