Struggling With Due Diligence
It’s been a while since my last post, there are various reasons for my absence: work, illness, having our house...
2016-06-23
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SQL Swimmer
Did you know?
Did you know that the call for speakers for PASS Summit 2016 opened on February 3, 2016?
Did you know that...
2016-02-15
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What is Power BI?
One of the “benefits” of being a chapter leader is that sometimes it means doing a presentation yourself when you...
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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What Do You Want?
It’s that time of year, planning for PASS Summit 2016. We’ve already put out the Call for Volunteers, which closes...
2016-01-22
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We Want You!
It seems like PASS Summit 2015 was just yesterday and here we are again, getting ready for Summit 2016 already. ...
2016-01-08
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Scripts – A Living History
As a DBA, I have a collection of scripts that I use for anything from auto-fixing logins to seeing who...
2015-11-20
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Aggregation Design is Back!
If you use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Data Tools – BI (SSDT-BI) for your SQL Server 2012...
2015-11-19
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One Tool to Rule Them All – Almost
There we so many cool announcements at the PASS Summit this year, but one of my favorites was the “One...
2015-11-18
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My Build and Deploy Process (as Requested by Bill Fellows)
Recently I attended Reg-Gate’s SQL in the City event in Seattle, WA. I was in Seattle for the annual PASS...
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-11-05)
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The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 3
October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...
2015-11-03
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers