Partitioning 4: Finding partitioning in DMVs and Object Explorer
Happy Friday! Today’s post will be light on the performance side and instead, I’m going to talk about how to...
2019-02-15
2,011 reads
ASF 019 video invitation
Check how many bicycles he has got at home and where was the destination of last year of a 400...
2019-02-15
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Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the second year in a row I will be participating as speaker in...
2019-02-15
199 reads
Learn about the State of Database DevOps Next Week
It’s a week to my webinar with Donovan Brown (bt, yg), leader of the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates,...
2019-02-14
236 reads
DBA Myths: Can a differential backup get bigger than the full backup?
The thing about DBA Myths is that they are generally widespread and widely believed. At least I believed this one...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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Undercover Catalogue 0.2.1, Fixes An Issue With The Recording Of Unicode And MAX Datatype Lengths
Please see https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ for full details on the Undercover Catalogue and how to obtain it.
We’ve spotted an issue where unicode...
2019-02-14
142 reads
Partitioning 3: Beyond just partition elimination
In Partitioning 2, I showed how to analyze which partitions were accessed by our Index Seek. However, we were searching...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
1,882 reads
Violin Plots in Power BI
In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot.
A violin plot is a...
2019-03-05 (first published: 2019-02-14)
3,147 reads
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 6: Query History
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-14
74 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Victoria
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Victoria on Saturday, March 16, 2019. I will be presenting my What is...
2019-02-13
29 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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My PASS Summit West 2026
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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