How NOLOCK Will Block Your Queries
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Note: the problem described below applies to all SELECT queries, not just those adorned with NOLOCK hints. The fact that it applies to NOLOCK queries...
2017-10-10
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Kill a Connection, Session, or Command in Analysis Services
One of the useful features of the SSAS Activity Monitor is the ability to cancel sessions and queries. Though there is...
2017-10-10
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Microsoft Ignite US 2017 – Major Azure Announcements
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Microsoft Ignite is probably the biggest technical event that Microsoft host yearly with many major announcements across the entire solutions portfolio suite –...
2017-10-09
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Microsoft Ignite US 2017 – Major Azure Announcements
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Microsoft Ignite is probably the biggest technical event that Microsoft host yearly with many major...
2017-10-09
461 reads
Using xp_delete_file
First, this is an undocumented proc, and there’s nothing in BOL on this. Second, it’s a holdover from previous versions,...
2017-10-09
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The evolution of SQL Server towards Digital Transformation challenges
SQL Server on Linux boosts the database market for Microsoft. Support of PolyBase (a feature to work with Big Data...
2017-10-09
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 72 – HTML Viewer)
In this module you will learn how to use the HTML Viewer. The HTML Viewer allows you to display the...
2017-10-17 (first published: 2017-10-09)
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SQL Server 2017 Encrypted Backups And Compression
Let’s work through some code to do an encrypted backup. This feature is available to you if you are using...
2017-10-18 (first published: 2017-10-09)
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Small identity columns
We frequently talk about dealing with outgrowing INT identity columns. What we don’t talk about all that often is small...
2017-10-17 (first published: 2017-10-09)
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Understanding ANOVA
ANOVA – or analysis of variance, is a term given to a set of statistical models that are used to analyze...
2017-10-16 (first published: 2017-10-09)
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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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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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