July 2014 – SQL Server Monthly Maintenance Checklist
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It’s been a few months since I’ve updated my SQL Server monthly maintenance checklist. Even though it hasn’t been...
2014-07-21
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Null Values in SQL Server
Walk & Talk #001 – Unknown or Null Values
Ride with us in this video as we head to Richmond, Virginia to present...
2014-07-21
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #93
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-07-21
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Victims of Success
I took part in the PASS Summit 2014 selection committee this year because I was really curious about seeing how...
2014-07-21
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Steps to install Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 – Multiple Instances
Steps to install Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 on multiple instances in one go :-
Step 1 : First page of...
2014-07-28 (first published: 2014-07-21)
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Add them to ALL the roles!
I seem to get a lot of permissions questions these days and one of the more frequent ones goes along...
2014-07-28 (first published: 2014-07-21)
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Speaker Buddy System
SirSQL made a rather stirring post recently. He talked about a speaker buddy system to help out new speakers in...
2014-07-25 (first published: 2014-07-21)
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PASS Data Arch VC presents SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey - How to Build a Database Deployment Pipeline
Please come join the Data Architecture VC this Wednesday to get info from MVP Grant about Database Deployment something all...
2014-07-21
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 34 (“Deleted Segments Elimination”)
Continuation from the previous 33 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
Segment Elimination for Deleted Row Groups
After some very interesting and inspiring conversations...
2014-07-20
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Extraordinary #2
This is another situation that happened on a database migration at a client site. The database migration was done by using SSIS...
2014-07-19
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Blogs
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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