Speaking at IT/Dev Connections!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at IT/Dev Connections on October 11th 2016 in Las Vegas! I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am...
2016-07-31
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Speaking at IT/Dev Connections!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at IT/Dev Connections on October 11th 2016 in Las Vegas! I...
2016-07-31
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The ROI of SQLSaturday for PASS & Decreased Event Funding
Returning to the post about Making SQSaturday Sustainable (see also a follow post about addressing concerns) it mentioned two topics...
2016-08-05 (first published: 2016-07-30)
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The End of the BAC–Why?
In a post titled The Future of the BA Community PASS announced that there would be no Business Analytics conference...
2016-07-30
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Database Sessions at VMworld 2016
This year’s involvement in VMware‘s VMworld conference is up on the content catalog! I am extremely proud to announce my participation...
2016-07-29
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Why I like SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
Why I like SQL Sentry Plan Explorer. I am going to be honest here, before attending SQLSKILLS Immersion training I...
2016-07-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 86 (“New Trace Flags in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 85 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
With the release of SQL Server 2016,...
2016-07-29
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Off-Topic: Phone number spoofing. Why is this still a thing?
A bit of history
Long ago there were such things called diverters. The phone company used them so employees could dial...
2016-07-29
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Quick Scalar Tables–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-07-28
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Using Context To Traverse Hierarchies In DAX
My friend and coworker Melissa Coates (aka @sqlchick) messaged me the other day to see if I could help with a...
2016-07-28
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Blogs
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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