SQL Server 2016 Announced, and it stretches to the Cloud!
Last week during Ignite, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the next version(Till then it was called as SQL vNext) of...
2015-05-10
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SQLSailor.com
Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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This one enhancement makes AlwaysOn Availability Group better in SQL Server 2014 !
I keep getting questions on what is improved other than the increased number of secondaries(8 now) with AlwaysOn Availability Group(AG) in...
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-19)
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SELECT INTO Improvements in SQL Server 2014 !
SQL Server 2014 is a great release with high performance features like In Memory OLTP, Updatable Column Store Indexes etc.
These features still...
2015-01-15 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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SQLCMD and SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER
Let’s talk about something simple today. You might already be knowing this, but if you haven’t seen/noted this before then...
2014-11-20 (first published: 2014-11-14)
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#SQLPASS #Summit14 Day 2 Keynote Highlights !
This was one of those days I was waiting to happen. You might be wondering whats special? Yes, this day...
2014-11-10
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#SQLPASS #Summit14 Day 1 Keynote Highlights !
PASS President Thomas LaRock on stage !
PASS President Thomas LaRock kicked off the summit keynote.
Tom talked about the history of...
2014-11-05
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My 1st SQL in the City Experience !
I attended my 1st #SQLinthecity event hosted by RedGate yesterday. This is one of those events which I wanted to attend...
2014-11-05
995 reads
SQLPASS Summit 2014 is here, The largest SQLServer Conference !
November is not the right time to visit Seattle (Blame the rain!), but I kinda like November because that’s when...
2014-11-03
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Checking out Windows Server Technical Preview on Azure !
I’m a great fan of running the latest version of Windows Server whenever I deploy SQLServer. I always try to...
2014-10-10 (first published: 2014-10-04)
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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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