SQLKonferenz 2015
If you are looking for one of the most awesome and most import conferences in Europe, then surely you need...
2014-12-04
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Exam Prep 70-463: Columnstore Indexes and Partitioning
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2014-12-04
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SQL Injection Issues–Password Hashing
I’ve got a demo for one of my talks that really highlights some issues we have with SQL Injection. It’s...
2014-12-04
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Slow performance due to SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension (BPE) and serial queries (MAXDOP 1)
The SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension feature can extend the buffer pool space on to Solid State Drive (SSD), where data and index pages can be cached. There...
2014-12-04
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NUMA remote (foreign) memory access overhead on Windows, SQL Server and In-Memory OLTP
In NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access), processors in the same physical location are grouped in a node which has its own local node memory. In a NUMA based system, there...
2014-12-04
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How to Handle Dynamic Rowsets
Sometimes you have a stored procedure that returns a rowset, and you need to insert the rowset into a temporary...
2014-12-04
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SQL Saturday NYC Update 1
It has been one week now since SQL Saturday NYC was announced and the planning committee and myself are very...
2014-12-03
372 reads
The Modern Data Warehouse
The traditional data warehouse has served us well for many years, but new trends are causing it to break in...
2014-12-10 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode – Report Server URL
This is a short, but hopefully sweet post for someone, whom, like me, might have had to end up spending...
2014-12-03
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T-SQL Tricks – Customizing SSMS Templates with Parameters
I wrote briefly about templates in Management Studio (SSMS), and showed the default templates that come with SQL Server. I...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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