Friday Reading 2017-02-10
Fun week, performed some RAM upgrades for my production SQL boxes which for one server, somehow fried its motherboard, hard...
2017-02-10
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Opening the PowerShell ISE from Explorer
This is a cool productivity trip, and one that I ran into by accident. I had heard that I could...
2017-02-09
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Consumption Based Architecture for Modern Data Analytics
Throughout many years of working with BI solutions and data warehouse solutions, we have strived to put all the data...
2017-02-09
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Getting Started with Power BI: Getting Data (Part 2 of 3)
This is part 2 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-09
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Speaking at Triad Developer’s Conference
I am honored to have been recommended by a colleague and selected as a speaker for the Triad Developer’s Conference...
2017-02-09
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Missing Checkbox for Security Filter in Power BI Desktop
Just a quick blog post so that other people don’t waste 15 minutes of their life looking for a missing...
2017-02-17 (first published: 2017-02-09)
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TugaIT – Pre-conference workshop on PowerShell on Linux
Where – Thursday, May 18, 2017 Where – TUGA IT – Lisbon, Portugal
Full Day Session – “Open Source PowerShell on Linux – Skills to Manage Your Heterogenous Data Center“ ...
2017-02-08
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TugaIT – Pre-conference workshop on PowerShell on Linux
Where – Thursday, May 18, 2017
Where – TUGA IT – Lisbon, Portugal
Full Day Session – “Open Source PowerShell on Linux – Skills to Manage Your...
2017-02-08
459 reads
DBA 101: What you may be missing with “Missing indexes”
If you’ve read my blog, I’m sure by now you know that I have no love for GUI tools. I...
2017-02-15 (first published: 2017-02-08)
3,380 reads
Let NonAdmins Get Logins
I saw a question recently about how to allow some users to see the logins on a server without being...
2017-02-08
831 reads
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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