What is the max/min size of a decimal data type?
Recently, I wrote a maintenance script to check every table in every database on our servers at work nightly and...
2016-05-31
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“Tuesday Morning” SQL Break – May 31, 2016
Yesterday it was Monday, which is when I usually aim to post a weekly blog and twitter round-up. But since I...
2016-05-31
852 reads
Running Multiple Threads Quickly
Recently I was looking to generate a quick workload against an instance. I wanted to add to the amount of...
2016-05-31
1,056 reads
Analyzing David and Goliath datasets on a same chart; Dual Axis in Excel, Power BI and SSRS
[2016-May-31] Two different metrics, two different datasets, one may represent a very high value and the other one is very low....
2016-05-31
1,710 reads
THE SQL Server 2016 NYC Launch Event Schedule
Presenting the OFFICIAL SQL Server 2016 NYC Launch Event Schedule for Thursday, June 2, 2016, just ONE day after the...
2016-05-31
1,984 reads
Precedence Goes to Query Store or Plan Guide?
While presenting at SQLDay in Wroclaw, Poland, on the Query Store, I was asked a pretty simple question, which takes...
2016-05-31
947 reads
Power BI Desktop May 2016 Update Info: Conditional Formatting and Quick Calc
*Update: The Power BI team has finally published a blog post with all the new features and its glorious! Read...
2016-05-31
1,326 reads
I hate saying no
I really do. There is a joke that DBAs say no to everything and there is some truth to that....
2016-05-31
759 reads
Conditional Formatting and Quick Calcs in Power BI Desktop
There’s a new update out of Power BI Desktop (May 2016), but at the time of writing there’s no official...
2016-06-07 (first published: 2016-05-31)
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 7.4: The Cramér–von Mises Criterion
By Steve Bolton
…………This last installment of this series of amateur tutorials features a goodness-of-fit metric that is closely related to...
2016-05-31
1,191 reads
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It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
By SQLPals
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What? On...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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