Public Speaking – The First Time
Update for T-SQL Tuesday #84
Well, this year I was challenged with the goal of speaking publicly three times, well I blew that out of the water and have spoken...
2016-01-25
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Public Speaking – The First Time
This past week I had the pleasure of speaking for my first time professionally to the Chicago Suburban SQL Server...
2016-01-25
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Querying Deadlocks From System_Health XEvent
It’s easy to query XEvents to see some of the basic info in deadlocks, including the system_health session which is already capturing this information by default. This script will,...
2016-01-25
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Querying Deadlocks From System_Health XEvent
It’s easy to query XEvents to see some of the basic info in deadlocks, including the system_health session which is...
2016-01-27 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday #500 in Boston!
I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday #500 in Boston on March 19th - I will be speaking (at...
2016-01-25
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Things I learned in 2015
Happy 2016!
I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what...
2016-01-25
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Monday Morning SQL Break – January 18, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on...
2016-01-25
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Monday Morning SQL Break – January 11, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-01-25
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CISL 1.1.0: cstore_doMaintenance (Columnstore Maintenace Solution Explained)
After the initial release of the SQL Server Maintenance Solution in CISL 1.1.0, I felt that a separate blog post...
2016-01-24
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Notes from the January 2016 MagicPASS Meeting
I did my presentation on automated restores for the second time, changed a few things. It was/is a presentation with...
2016-01-22
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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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