Sabbatical Decisions
My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from...
2014-05-02
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Reblog: April 25 to May 1
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-05-02
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 5
More notes, many from a chat with Kendal.
We wish we could see the open rate on email and an...
2014-05-02
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Speaker of the Month, May 2014
Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...
2014-05-02
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Power Query to HDFS – Remote Name Could Not Be Resolved
I wanted to share a quick resolution I had to a problem with connecting Power Query to data stored in...
2014-05-09 (first published: 2014-05-02)
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Friday Followup For May 2, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-05-02
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Speaking at #SQLSat307 in Iowa City!
I just received confirmation I will be speaking at SQL Saturday 307 in Iowa City on June 7th!
I will be...
2014-05-02
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Continuous Delivery Visualization
A good one, one of the better diagrams I’ve seen.
From http://markosrendell.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/practical-benefits-of-continuous-delivery/
Now if we can get tooling and processes to make...
2014-05-01
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 4
I spent some more time last night thinking about the event and marketing it. Biased I am, but I think...
2014-05-01
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SQL – List All Tables, Space Usage Info & Other Details
One of the OP requested in the forum to find all table details of any database. The details which includes Number...
2014-05-01
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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...
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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