Tim Ford’s Entry-Level Content Challenge
All bloggers started as beginners. We picked things up, learned them, and got to the point where we wanted to start sharing our knowledge. The problem is that most...
2016-01-26
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Tim Ford’s Entry-Level Content Challenge
All bloggers started as beginners. We picked things up, learned them, and got to the point where we wanted to...
2016-01-26
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What is an Identity?
Identity (or AutoNumber) is a column that automatically generates numeric values. A start and increment value can be set, but...
2016-01-26
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What is Normalization in SQL Server?
In relational database design, the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. It usually involves dividing a...
2016-01-26
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What is Power BI?
One of the “benefits” of being a chapter leader is that sometimes it means doing a presentation yourself when you...
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Creating a Database Snapshot
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – January 25, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL)....
2016-01-25
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Finding Your Query in Query Store
Query Store is pretty amazing. I’m loving working with it. I think it’s likely to change how query tuning will...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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From the Power BI dashboard to a specific page in a Report
Recently, I was working with a customer designing Power BI reports and dashboards. Everything was going great until she asked...
2016-01-25
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Reusing schedules in SQL Agent
I’m a big fan of automation. You get it written, tested, and scheduled, then you just sit back and monitor...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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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...
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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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