Pausing PASSWatch & What’s Next
I just posted Pausing PASSWatch on the PASSWatch blog, wrapping up a project that ran about 16 months. It’s hard...
2016-02-02
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SSC Question of the Day: DBCC Error 6
My latest question of the day on SQLServerCentral is DBCC Error 6. Text of the question below:
As the on-call DBA,...
2016-02-02
2,061 reads
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,082 reads
Azure SQL DB – technical deployment
Take a look this awesome document for the Azure SQL DB technical deployment with lot of the details that you need...
2016-02-02
514 reads
Should I use option(recompile)?
This will probably be a multiple stage discussion. The notes I’m providing today were sparked off of the content located...
2016-02-02
2,036 reads
Advent of Code – Day 2 – Using Cross apply
For this post i worked on second puzzle in the Adventofcode series. This wasn’t as challenging as the first one, but...
2016-02-02
315 reads
Excel Power Map vs. Power BI Globe Map visualization
[2016-02-02] PowerMap in Excel is a great tool with good design and comprehensive user experience. I’ve started using it about...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-02)
5,870 reads
Microsoft Azure Stack in Preview!
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-01)
1,883 reads
Loading a Text File from T-SQL
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-02-10 (first published: 2016-02-01)
3,390 reads
SSC Editorial: Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model
Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model ran on January 21, 2016 and as you can guess from the title is...
2016-02-01
589 reads
Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Forums
Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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