Career Corner: Go Beyond Networking
Networking with others is good for your career. You should do it. Don’t stop there. Keep going.
Networking builds contacts and...
2017-01-25
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Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in...
2017-01-25
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My SQL logins don’t work. Again.
My recent post on why SQL logins aren’t working has generated a couple of follow up posts. The first one...
2017-02-02 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Running SSMS 2016 in Read Uncommitted Mode
Back in July when we received the first official release of SSMS not tied to an engine release we got a new SQL PowerShell module and we also received...
2017-01-25
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Running SSMS 2016 in Read Uncommitted Mode
Back in July when we received the first official release of SSMS not tied to an engine release we got a new SQL PowerShell module and we also received...
2017-01-25
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Running SSMS 2016 in Read Uncommitted Mode
Back in July when we received the first official release of SSMS not tied to an engine release we got...
2017-02-01 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Transaction log shipping in SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server on Linux has been out for a bit now and I’ve played around a little (see here) but...
2017-01-30 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Interactive query experience for SQL databases
This is a new feature where you can issue TSQL commands via a TSQL editor straight from the Azure portal,...
2017-01-25
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JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Overview Part 1: Parsing JSON
As a developer my favorite new feature of SQL Server 2016 is JSON support.
I love JSON in SQL because I already love JSON everywhere outside of SQL: it uses...
2017-01-24
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5 Characteristics Every Leader Should Practice
The word leadership has many synonyms attributed to it. Something that can be learned early on in one’s career is that...
2017-01-24
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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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