SQL in the City Comes to Seattle in 3 Days
Last week I spoke at SQL in the City 2015 in London, and it was a great event. We had...
2015-10-23
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Improved #MinionBackup and #MinionReindex – new versions!
We released Minion Backup 1.1 and Minion Reindex 1.2 this week! We’ve got a some great new features, and a number of bug fixes....
2015-10-23
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Talk to Me at PASS Summit
If you’re going to PASS and you want to have a chat, I want to talk to you. If it’s...
2015-10-23
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SQL Server – Columnstore Index creation error: A columnstore index cannot be created on a SPARSE column
Hi friends, as we know that in SQL Server 2012 a new feature Columnstore index was introduced which made a...
2015-10-23
645 reads
PASS Summit 2015 Plans
I’m flying out Sunday morning on my usual direct flight from Orlando to Seattle. I like getting there a day...
2015-10-23
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Counting Events
This article will show how to implement an XEvent Session that employs the use of the event_counter target that is used for counting events. IN addition, you will be...
2015-10-23
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Counting Events
After reading through the articles about the pair_matching target (here) and the article on the histogram target (here), this one is...
2015-10-23
614 reads
Webinar – What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Thursday 29th October 2015.
The title is What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server...
2015-10-23
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Performance and using of VARCHAR boxes as filters in SSRS reports
Very few people have thought about this performance killer. It is all about report parameter of text type. The initial situation There was a table with about 45 million...
2015-10-22
43 reads
Performance and using of VARCHAR boxes as filters in SSRS reports
Very few people have thought about this performance killer. It is all about report parameter of text type. The initial situation There was a table with about 45 million...
2015-10-22
43 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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