Box-and-whisker plot and data patterns with R and T-SQL
R is particularly good with drawing graphs with data. Some graphs are familiar to most DBAs as it has been...
2017-10-03 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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Cookie Consent
More of an FYI, but the EU Cookie Consent law goes into effect on Oct 1. Maybe this matters to...
2017-09-25
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UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Sp_ChangeJobOwnerShip – Changing Ownership in bulk.
How many times have you seen SQL Agent jobs with random ownership? It can be very frustrating when you are...
2017-09-25
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An analytical mind
Last week I was reading this article in which a Professor argues that students should be allowed to take smartphones...
2017-09-25
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dataMinds Connect 2017 – And The Winner Is?
Last week I had the privilege to host a little contest to give away one free ticket to dataMinds Connect...
2017-09-25
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Columnstore Indexes – part 113 (“Row Groups Merging Limitations”)
Continuation from the previous 112 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post serves as the continuation...
2017-09-24
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check out the thread here. I was up way too...
2017-09-23
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check...
2017-09-23
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SQL Server On Containers
On Sep 23rd 2.45 PM PST, I will be presenting 2 sessions on “SQL Server On Containers” @ at SQLSaturday San Diego, if...
2017-09-23
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.2: The Rényi Entropy and Its Kin
By Steve Bolton
…………I kicked off this far-ranging series on using SQL Server to quantify information by discussing two of the...
2017-09-22
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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
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
Trigger isn't working
Hi, I have a trigger, that works fine elsewhere but is not working at...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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