Interview questions: What’s the first thing you would do if a user reports slowness.
We’ve been doing a fair amount of interviewing recently and one of our big questions is What do you do...
2018-06-08 (first published: 2018-05-28)
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Monday morning comic 2018-05-28
It always seems that when I give a talk on performance there are 100+ people packed in the room but...
2018-05-28
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dbachecks – Dark Mode Historical Validation PowerBi
in my last post I showed how you can save the results of dbachecks to a database and created a...
2018-06-07 (first published: 2018-05-28)
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Actual Number of Rows are not always accurate
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-06-06 (first published: 2018-05-28)
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Power BI with Mapbox and Volcanic Ring of Fire
(2018-May-27) With recent Hawaiian volcano activity, it would be interesting to see how other similar events have shaped our Earth planet....
2018-06-06 (first published: 2018-05-27)
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Choosing a Color Palette For Your Power BI Report
Color is a powerful attribute in data visualization. In a good visualization, it can focus attention and enhance meaning and...
2018-06-05 (first published: 2018-05-27)
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Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? Part 1
Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you have not heard about GDPR. This has been hot topic...
2018-05-25
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Add a custom report to SSMS
Maybe some of you don't know this, but to view Report Definition Language reports (RDL) , you aren't forced to use...
2018-05-25
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Hands off dbatools updates
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-06-01 (first published: 2018-05-25)
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DBCC Clonedatabase and Query Store
Cloning things is all the rage these days…..even Storm Troopers.
Anyway, by now, you probably have seen documentation on Query Store...
2018-06-04 (first published: 2018-05-25)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Anyone knows where to download SQLexpress edition for 2022
Where to download earlier version of SQL server express 2022? Thanks
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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