Monday Coffee 2017-01-30
Wow, what a week last week was.
The biggest thing that happened was that I got a session at SQL Saturday...
2017-01-30
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Enabling Remote Access to the Dedicated Admin Connection
Recently I was running a health check on one of my clients SQL Servers and I noticed that access to...
2017-01-30
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How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query
[2017-Jan-29] It came as a request from one of my customers where I had worked as a consultant to quickly compare...
2017-01-29
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Worth Reading – Something I learned while unemployed by Rod Falanga
SQLServerCentral recently published Something I learned while unemployed. Written by Rod Falanga, it has lessons worth learning about making time to...
2017-01-28
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SQL and the other technologies
Next table shows how SQL stands with the other technologies. The data is taken from StackOverflow.Data charted looks like in the...
2017-01-28
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SCOPE_IDENTITY() or @@IDENTITY
I’ve seen quite a lot of usage of both functions in the T-SQL codes. However, their usage sometimes matters. The expectation from @@IDENTITY can sometimes not be the desired. This...
2017-01-27
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SCOPE_IDENTITY() or @@IDENTITY
I’ve seen quite a lot of usage of both functions in the T-SQL codes. However, their usage sometimes matters. The expectation from @@IDENTITY can sometimes not be the desired. This...
2017-01-27
11 reads
SCOPE_IDENTITY() or @@IDENTITY
I’ve seen quite a lot of usage of both functions in the T-SQL codes. However, their usage sometimes matters. The expectation...
2017-01-27
282 reads
CloudProPT – The New Cloud/Azure Community in Portugal
I am so happy to share the news that as of today, the new community CloudProPT (as in Cloud for...
2017-01-27
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Finding Sysadmins with dba tools–GetDbaRoleMember
I’ve been wandering through the dbatools set of cmdlets, trying to see where various cmdlets are useful, and also practicing...
2017-01-27
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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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