T-SQL Tuesday #88: My Top WTF Moments
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #88 being hosted this month by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|@KennieNP). This month’s topic is the “daily...
2017-03-14
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
2016/2017 Whitepaper Updates
One of the problems with whitepapers is that they get out of date pretty quickly. It’s important to update them...
2017-03-13
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The Costs of Hiring Cheaper Consultants
From time to time, I see posts in forums from people complaining about how much some consultants charge. A really...
2017-02-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #87 – New Way to See Wait Stats for a Single Query
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #87 being hosted this month by Matt Gordon (blog|@sqlatspeed). This month’s topic is “Fixing Old Problems...
2017-02-14
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Warning: Not a valid checkpoint file name
One of the other DBAs I work with noticed a warning message that was flooding the log files on one...
2017-01-30
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Finding Automatic Soft-NUMA
If you already know about Automatic Soft-NUMA in SQL Server 2016, then you probably already read the blog post SQL...
2017-01-04 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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T-SQL Tuesday #85 Part Deux: Backup Myth Restoring Differential Backups
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”....
2016-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #85: Backup Log With NoRecovery
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”....
2016-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: Resource Governor CAP_CPU_PERCENT: It just runs faster?
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #83 being hosted this month by Andy Mallon (blog|@AMTwo). This month’s topic is “We’re still dealing...
2016-10-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #81 – Migrating Databases with Dell LiteSpeed
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is fellow Certified Master and Data Platform MVP Jason Brimhall...
2016-08-09
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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