More Collation Confusion. (tempdb)
I’ve talked about Collation Confusion before. We had the dev and test instances at one collation and the production instance...
2017-11-08
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Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...
2017-11-08
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What Are These Backup Settings All About?
I ran across a client the other day that had these Backup and Recovery options set like the picture below...
2017-11-08
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Why do you want to use SQL Service Broker
Why use SQL Service Broker It enables you to execute SQL Statements faster and do the real work later. SQL Server...
2017-11-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 115 (“Bulk Load API and Pressure”)
Continuation from the previous 114 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is dedicated to the...
2017-11-08
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Contained Databases setup
Last weekI wrote about what is a contained database, the benefits and challenges, today as promised I'll show you how...
2017-11-08
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Tuning Throughput from Azure Event Hub to Azure Stream Analytics
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Recently I had a requirement to load streaming JSON data to provide a data feed for near real-time reporting. The solution streamed...
2017-11-07
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Tuning Throughput from Azure Event Hub to Azure Stream Analytics
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Recently I had a requirement to load streaming JSON data to provide a...
2017-11-07
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Improving instead-of-insert cardinality estimates for inserted and deleted pseudotables in SQL 2014+
Tricky triggers
In my last entry I noted that the performance of "instead-of" triggers can be tricky.
One of the reasons for...
2017-11-07
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dbatools with SQL on Docker and running SQL queries
I had a question from my good friend Andrew Pruski dbafromthecold on twitter or SQL Container Man as I call...
2017-11-07
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Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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