Windows 11 Complaints
I upgraded my primary laptop to Windows 11. A few people had said they liked it, I know that I needed to keep up at some point, and in...
2022-10-19
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Granular Cost Management for Azure Data Factory
A new feature has been launched that allows you to have more granular control over the execution costs of your pipelines. By enabling the feature, you have a cost...
2022-10-31 (first published: 2022-10-19)
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Where did this database come from??
Happy Tuesday, blog reader. Have you ever come across a database you had not seen before or was in a different naming convention than you are used to seeing?...
2022-10-31 (first published: 2022-10-18)
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Oct 2022
Announced at Microsoft Ignite were some new product features related to data platform and AI. Below are the ones I found most interesting: Azure Cosmos DB adds distributed PostgreSQL...
2022-10-18
36 reads
Memphis SQL Saturday 2022 & a Notebook
Back in person again! It is awesome to be able to get back into the SQL community and see fellow data professionals. A huge shout out to the Memphis...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-18)
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Daily Coping 18 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to share an important goal with someone you trust. I’m not sharing an important goal here. Honestly, some of the things that are important to...
2022-10-18
29 reads
Composite Models in PowerBI -- The solution to poor search performance in SSAS
With the release of composite models in PowerBI, Ive been able to solve a long-standing issue with SQL Server Analysis Services: text search performance. In this article I am...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-10-2020
Hello Dear Reader! We had a big week on Tales From The Field! We've got some great stuff planned for you this week, but before we get to the...
2022-10-17
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An Update to Skipping the Leading Digit in T-SQL–#SQLNewBlogger
There was an interesting question in a forum, which I wrote about before. How do you skip the leading digit in a numeric value. I had looked at a...
2022-10-18 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Monitor Cardinality Feedback in SQL Server 2022
It’s possible for you to see new technology at work if you use Extended Events to monitor cardinality feedback. To put it simply, cardinality, the number of rows being...
2022-10-26 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
Forums
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
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Stairway to DAX and Power BI - Level 29: The DAX Combine & Aggregate Functions
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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