Managing Bad Data
In the last post in my ongoing series about ETL best practices, I discussed the importance of error handling in ETL...
2017-02-21 (first published: 2017-02-16)
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True story: Encryption in progress stuck
Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was...
2017-02-16
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Resolution of Database Consistency Error in SQL Server
There are so many facilities and amenities in SQL Server along with built-in methods, which assist users in some bad...
2017-02-16
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PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter
We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday. However, we have a last-minute meeting tonight (this afternoon, tomorrow, whichever time zone you’re in)....
2017-02-15
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PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter
We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday. However, we have a last-minute meeting tonight (this afternoon, tomorrow, whichever time zone you’re in)....
2017-02-15
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PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter
We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday. However, we have a last-minute meeting...
2017-02-15
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Upcoming list of webinars
SQL folks, upcoming list of webinars from SQL PASS.
Webinar title / Registration link / more infoSpeakerDate / Time"Why Your Data Type Choices Matter" https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4226815545680860675Andy...
2017-02-15
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Viewing container logs
I’ve been going over some demos for a presentation that I’ll be giving this year and I thought I’d write...
2017-02-15
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Columnstore Indexes – part 98 (“Null Expressions & String Aggregates”)
Continuation from the previous 97 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Continuing with the spirit of the previous...
2017-02-15
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SQL Clone and Encryption
I’ve been testing and working with SQL Clone for the last few months, trying to help the devs at Redgate...
2017-02-20 (first published: 2017-02-15)
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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