Azure Data Lake Store Gen2
Big news! The next generation of Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) has arrived. See the official announcement. In short, ADLS Gen2 is the combination of the current ADLS (now called...
2018-06-28
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Azure Data Lake Store Gen2
Big news! The next generation of Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) has arrived. See the official announcement.
In short, ADLS Gen2 is...
2018-07-10 (first published: 2018-06-28)
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I’m Speaking At SQL Saturday Baton Rouge!
I am excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge (#749) on August...
2018-06-28
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Minion Backup: Restore to another server
Minion Backup makes your SQL Server backups effortless, of course. And even better, it makes your restores effortless! Oh, yes….yes indeed. Today we’ll look...
2018-06-28
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Does a Primary Key always have stats_id 1?
Back to the SQL Server Basics with Wayne
The Myth
I recently was attending a presentation where the presenter stated that the...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-06-28)
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Mastering Index Tuning–Day 1
This is a short series of posts on the courses I took with Brent Ozar. I actually completed the courses...
2018-07-05 (first published: 2018-06-28)
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Use SSMS with a Different Windows Account – Back to Basics
Runas should be a very common tool in the toolbox of all IT professionals - not just Data Professionals. Learning how to test different accounts is essential to being...
2018-06-28
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Use SSMS with a Different Windows Account – Back to Basics
One of the tasks I find myself doing on a fairly regular basis is running SSMS as a different Windows...
2018-07-06 (first published: 2018-06-28)
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Check instant file initialization and lock pages in memory options
Study your server reports do the work for you!
Instant file initialization and lock pages in memory are 2 windows operating...
2018-06-28
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Notes From SQLSaturday Houston 2018
Various and possibly amazing notes:
Because I waited too long the best flight I could get was into George Bush instead...
2018-06-28
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
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Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers