Not Quite Monday Morning SQL Break – February 7, 2017
It’s Tuesday and time to get Monday’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week out the door. It’s late and I need to find a better way to...
2017-02-07
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Not Quite Monday Morning SQL Break – February 7, 2017
It’s Tuesday and time to get Monday’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week out the door. It’s late...
2017-02-07
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Does Query Store Pre-Allocate Space
I love the questions I get while I’m presenting because they force me to think and learn. The question in...
2017-02-14 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
How often is cost the deciding factor in the case of Windows vs Linux? And what if cost wasn’t a...
2017-02-07
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Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI
UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here.
Recently someone had a question...
2017-02-13 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Restrict user to login from single Host
Restricting user to login from single host may be sometimes required from security point and other business requirements. We can...
2017-02-07
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SQL: Different ways to generate sequence
There was a question from the op regarding adding a new column to a query output by generating the cyclic...
2017-02-09 (first published: 2017-02-06)
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SQL Server: DATETIME vs DATETIME2
When it comes to a choice between data types for a field in a SQL Server database's table, an issue that is frequently discussed in popular forums is a...
2017-02-06
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SQL Server: DATETIME vs DATETIME2
When it comes to a choice between data types for a field in a SQL Server database's table, an issue...
2017-02-06
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Still Grateful to Rodney Landrum
So, my blog got hacked. They edited the page where I thanked Rodney for all that he did. I had...
2017-02-06
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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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