DAX #1 – Learning DAX
I recently attended a virtual training of Tabular and Power Pivot for Developers taught by Kathy Vick at Pragmatic Works....
2014-04-25
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Powershell Goodies
If you haven’t seen some of the other blog post, or the Microsoft Powershell Blog, Microsoft recently release Script Browser for...
2014-04-25
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Reblog: April 18 to April 24
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-04-25
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Out for a day
I’m hoping I’m only out for a day. As I write this, I’ll be recovering from my ACL surgery, though...
2014-04-25
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Friday Followup For April 25, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-04-25
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Techfuse, a New Laptop, and How Microsoft Azure Helped Save the Day
On Tuesday, April 22, I had the opportunity to speak at the Techfuse conference in Minneapolis. I was presenting a...
2014-04-24
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Another Question Of the Day
Yesterday I submitted a new question of the day based on the best idea generator you can find – something that...
2014-04-24
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SSMS Add-ons
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on...
2014-05-05 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness
One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...
2014-05-06 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Where are my 32-bit Perfmon Counters?
I have run into this before, but not in this same way, so I decided it would be worth writing...
2014-05-05 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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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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