SQL Azure pricing
Form the first glance it may seem to be complicated to calculate price of hosting your database on Azure SQL. We`re simplifying this...
2015-06-17
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Hints on choosing a remote database support service
Databases today are the heart of any business. Holding literally tons of information they indirectly are responsible for managing personnel,...
2015-06-17
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Monitoring Availability Groups with Redgate SQL Monitor
In previous posts here and here we discussed AlwaysOn Availability Group replication latency and monitoring concepts, specifically the importance of monitoring the send_queue and redo_queue. In this post I’m going to...
2015-06-17
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Monitoring Availability Groups with Redgate SQL Monitor
In previous posts here and here we discussed AlwaysOn Availability Group replication latency and monitoring concepts, specifically the importance of monitoring the...
2015-06-17
5,107 reads
Execution Plans in Extended Events
Extended Events is a wonderful tool. Execution Plans are also some wonderful things – or are a wonderful tool as well. Both of these tools are fantastic for troubleshooting. Combined,...
2015-06-17
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Execution Plans in Extended Events
Extended Events is a wonderful tool. Execution Plans are also some wonderful things – or are a wonderful tool as well. Both...
2015-06-17
1,148 reads
Pass TV
Recently Adam Machanic (b/t) was telling me about an interesting effect of the top operator. When I asked for an...
2015-06-17
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Creating a Date Dimension with Power Query
A date dimension or table can be extremely important when working on a Power BI project, or BI projects in...
2015-06-16
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Announcing Workshops – Columnstore Deep Dive
After 2 year of active blogging and almost 60 blog posts (56 + 3 on Azure) we have decided that it...
2015-06-16
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Excel BI Tip #27: CUBESET and CUBESETCOUNT Functions
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-06-16
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Anyone knows where to download SQLexpress edition for 2022
Where to download earlier version of SQL server express 2022? Thanks
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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