October 2014 Las Vegas UG Meeting
The Las Vegas User Group is happy to announce our monthly meeting. The meeting is available for in person and...
2014-10-08
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Required reading before upgrading SQL Server.
I was watching a great presentation by Brent Ozar(b/t) on why to move to SQL 2014 and in the Q...
2014-10-08
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Fill Factor vs Page Splits – Measure It..!!
I have been trying to solve the puzzle of “How to evaluate my current Fill Factor setting?”, and there have...
2014-10-08
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Invite for #TSQL2sday #59 – My Hero!
It is T-SQL Tuesday again, for the 59th month in a row. Next month marks FIVE YEARS of T-SQL Tuesday,...
2014-10-13 (first published: 2014-10-08)
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Non-obvious APS/PDW benefits
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has a lot of obvious...
2014-10-07
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Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions)
Some time ago I was writing some windowing functions on a set of data. Basically I was looking for the...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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The full text error and why I was happy to see it.
The Situation: I was recently involved in the migration of a group of core databases from three SQL Server 2005 instances to...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Making Better Presentations–Practice
This is part of a series of tips for speakers on how to make your presentations better.
There’s one thing that...
2014-10-06
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Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
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Does Full Backup contain data inserted during backup ?
Question : When you take full backup, do it capture data till the time backup start time or till the time backup end. Answer : Full backup capture database...
2014-10-06
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers