Speaker Buddy System
SirSQL made a rather stirring post recently. He talked about a speaker buddy system to help out new speakers in...
2014-07-25 (first published: 2014-07-21)
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PASS Data Arch VC presents SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey - How to Build a Database Deployment Pipeline
Please come join the Data Architecture VC this Wednesday to get info from MVP Grant about Database Deployment something all...
2014-07-21
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 34 (“Deleted Segments Elimination”)
Continuation from the previous 33 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
Segment Elimination for Deleted Row Groups
After some very interesting and inspiring conversations...
2014-07-20
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Extraordinary #2
This is another situation that happened on a database migration at a client site. The database migration was done by using SSIS...
2014-07-19
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Things You Can Find in the Plan Cache at SQLBits
On Saturday, I had the pleasure to present my session, “Things You Can Find in the Plan Cache”, at SQLBits!
Thanks to...
2014-07-19
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Database jokes
Sometimes when work is tough you simply need to take your eyes and mind away from your working console. Jokes are one matter that you can take a look on and smile...
2014-07-18
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Database jokes
Sometimes when work is tough you simply need to take your eyes and mind away from your working console. Jokes are one matter that you can take a look on and smile...
2014-07-18
253 reads
Database jokes
Sometimes when work is tough you simply need to take your eyes and mind away from your working console. Jokes are one...
2014-07-18
1,317 reads
Display All SQL DateTime Conversions
If you want a quick way to determine which format, or style, to specify when converting a datetime value in SQL to a character data type, you can use...
2014-07-18
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Display All SQL DateTime Conversions
If you want a quick way to determine which format, or style, to specify when converting a datetime value in...
2014-07-18
696 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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