Monday Coffee 2017-01-23
I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets...
2017-01-23
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Datediff: We’ve Been Doing It Wrong
One of the most common mistakes people make when writing T-SQL is using a function in the where clause, and...
2017-01-23
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Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification
SQL is pretty verbose compared to some languages. It's a pretty big disappointment that I have to type out select...
2017-01-23
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Using Extended Events Telemetry Session
You are probably wondering what this is, quite honestly I was wondering too. Well it is an extended events session...
2017-01-23
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Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts...
2017-01-22
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Columnstore Indexes – part 96 (“Nonclustered Columnstore Index Online Rebuild”)
Continuation from the previous 95 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on a...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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How to Count the Total Number of Rows Across Multiple Tables
I have been working on SQL Server Consulting assignment, a SQL Server 2014 migration for a new client over the...
2017-01-31 (first published: 2017-01-22)
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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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