Clustered Index Uniquifier Existence and Size
In SQL Server, each and every row in a table needs to be accessible by itself, whether or not you...
2017-09-19
1,976 reads
PowerShell Modules Central - Share with community - What PowerShell modules are you using?
Like the blog post title states this is all about sharing with others! My idea is to share with the community which PowerShell modules you are using.
PowerShellModulesCentral is a...
2017-09-19
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My Thoughts After Completing a Power BI Report Server POC
Last month I worked on a proof of concept testing Power BI Report Server for self-service BI. The client determined...
2017-09-25 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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Adding Replicas into existing Availability Groups
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2017-09-18
383 reads
Experimenting with VSCode instead of the ISE
I’ve been playing with PowerShell here and there, learning a few things. As I use the dbatools project, or
I...
2017-09-18
535 reads
Database Fundamentals #11: Why Learn T-SQL
If you’ve been following along with the previous 10 Database Fundamentals blog posts, you have a SQL Server installed and...
2017-09-21 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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Uniquifier is a rather unique word isn’t it?
tl;dr; The uniquifier is used to make a non-unique key in a clustered index unique.
Uniquifier is a rather funny name,...
2017-09-22 (first published: 2017-09-18)
1,657 reads
dataMinds Connect 2017 (win a ticket!)
Within two weeks the wait is over: the first edition of dataMinds Connect! For those of you wondering what I’m...
2017-09-18
339 reads
SQL Server Schema Compare
A very common requirement which can be satisfied by various tools. Personally I like using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition...
2017-09-18
733 reads
Confidence Intervals for a proportion – using R
What is the difference between reading numbers as they are presented, and interpreting them in a mature, deeper way? One...
2017-09-28 (first published: 2017-09-18)
1,337 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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