Learn High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SQL Server in a Day!
If you are near Pittsburgh, PA on May 22, 2014 catch the following all-day training session from 8:30 AM to 4:00...
2014-04-23
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Azure Automation
I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...
2014-04-23
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-04-23
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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Practical Data Migration Strategies
Practical Data Migration Strategies
As organizations mature their IT infrastructure must change to keep up with new applications and technologies. Many...
2014-04-23
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SSMS Queries on Function Keys
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-23
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SQLSaturday #305 Dallas Business Analytics Edition
I am excited about being selected to speak and attend the May 3rd SQLSaturday BA Edition in Dallas, TX. There...
2014-04-23
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Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision
This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...
2014-05-01 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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SQL Server Partitioning 101
I’ve worked with partitioning for quite some time now, and though it has been around for quite some time and lots has been written about the concept I recently...
2014-04-23
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Come see me present SQL Saturday Atlanta
Have you seen the schedule for SQL Saturday #285 – Atlanta? Holy cow they have jam packed too many hard decisions...
2014-04-22
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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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