SQL Server Compression 101
The data compression feature in SQL Server can help reduce the size of the database as well as improve the performance of intensive I/O intensive workloads, especially on data...
2016-10-28
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SQLDinner/Meetup Tonight at PASS Summit
If you’re at the PASS Summit and would like to meet some new people, come see us from 5:30 to...
2016-10-27
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First thoughts on Power BI on premises
The wait is over, the Reporting Services team finally released a preview for Power BI Desktop reports hosted on premises...
2016-11-01 (first published: 2016-10-27)
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PASS Summit Friday Night Activity
Anyone staying until Saturday from the PASS Summit in Seattle? Be at the Seattle Underground at 530p for a 6p...
2016-10-27
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Distributed Databases - One Way Synchronization
Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0
Business Need
A very common organization of the data infrastructure for big companies who operate in many countries and use some type of...
2016-10-27
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Distributed Databases - One Way Synchronization
Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0
Business Need
A very common organization of the data infrastructure for big companies who operate...
2016-10-27
318 reads
PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 2
Dr. David DeWitt is getting ready to take the stage to a huge ovation and is thrilled to be back...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 1
Grant Fritchey taking the stage to talk about the financial health of PASS.
250k members , 170 countries, and 87% global representation...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016: Day 2 Keynote
This week I’m attending the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle. I’ll be live blogging each of the keynote presentations on...
2016-10-27
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#RedgateRocks Tonight at #sqlsummit
Tonight is the #RedgateRocks party at 1927 Events in Seattle. You’ll need to get a wristband from the Redgate Software...
2016-10-27
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
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...
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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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