Back to Work
After surgery Fri am, I’ve been mostly taking it easy, but now it’s back to work. Got kids to school...
2014-04-29
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Speaking At the Pinellas SQL Group on August 18, 2014
I’ve committed to presenting but haven’t decided on the presentation yet. It will probably be a remote presentation because it’s...
2014-04-29
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Installing and Configuring Active Directory in Window Server 2012
Hello Friends,
Sometimes life is so uneasy that you didn’t get time for the work which you like the most. Now...
2014-04-29
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SQL Server Quickie #13 – Hash Join Operator
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-04-29
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What is a Non-Clustered Columnstore Index?
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, the Columnstore index is a new in-memory feature that allows for the creation of...
2014-04-29
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Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others
Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
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PowerShell-Input-Validation Scripts
Input values are validated using various mechanisms. let’s start by examining how you would validate input parameters in Windows PowerShell...
2014-04-28
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PowerShell-Input-Validation Scripts
Input values are validated using various mechanisms. let’s start by examining how you would validate input parameters in Windows PowerShell...
2014-04-28
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Sorkin On Writing
I saw this write up about Aaron Sorkin and the writing on Newsroom just after posting Blogging-Write More and found...
2014-04-28
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #81
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-04-28
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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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