Columnstore Indexes – part 70 (“Filtered Indexes in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 69 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is the continuation from...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015: So Far
It’s Kilt Day!
I want to give a quick assessment on how the Summit has been for me so far. Monday,...
2015-10-29
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Default Sessions
The focus of this article will be to introduce the default sessions deployed with SQL Server. Some of these are internal and "private" while others are more "public" and...
2015-10-29
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Default Sessions
So I have blasted through a lot of technical articles about Extended Events. There is a lot of groundwork that...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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My PASS Summit 2015 Presentation
I’m going to present my session about working with parameters in PASS Summit on Thursday at 03:15pm. The title of...
2015-10-29
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PASS 2015 Session Report – KeyNote and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Features, Best Practices & Roadmap
So PASS officially kicked off this morning leading into the next 3 days of back to back sessions. You could certainly tell that the keynote was on… I mean...
2015-10-29
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PASS 2015 Session Report – KeyNote and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Features, Best Practices & Roadmap
So PASS officially kicked off this morning leading into the next 3 days of back to back sessions.
You could certainly...
2015-10-29
857 reads
Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers