Check Your Azure Account Usage
It is absolutely not cool or fun to pay money to learn new technology. One of the main complaints people...
2013-08-27
780 reads
The Scary DBA
Make the PASS Summit Work For Your Employer
It was pointed out to me that since PASS is such a huge networking event, any employer would be crazy...
2013-09-02 (first published: 2013-08-26)
1,956 reads
SQL CAT is on the Move
Not a big deal really, but they’re consolidating from the SQLCAT.COM to put everything on MSDN.
Read all about it here.
I...
2013-08-23
722 reads
Get Started with Windows Azure SQL Database
Learning new things can be daunting. First, you have to come up with the spare time. Then you have track...
2013-08-27 (first published: 2013-08-22)
2,426 reads
Speaking this Fall
I’ve been at home through the whole month of August, restingworking hard, but it’s time to get on the road...
2013-08-21
861 reads
Azure Changes, While I’m Working
My laptop is out for repair. I’m working currently on a Surface Pro instead. It’s spurred me to do something...
2013-08-19
800 reads
Azure and Your MSDN Account
I’ve heard over and over again that the reason people don’t want to learn Azure, to explore it, to understand...
2013-08-15
746 reads
You should NOT attend the PASS Summit
If you asked me, prior to today, if I would type or say those words, I would have laughed right...
2013-08-12
740 reads
Be Cautious When Critizing About Guidance
I recently posted some comments about some guidance offered by Microsoft when talking about the CXPACKET wait type. Nothing I...
2013-08-07
672 reads
24 Hours of PASS Streaming Available
If you missed the 24 Hours of PASS Summit 2013 Preview, you missed some excellent sessions. I watched a few,...
2013-08-13 (first published: 2013-08-07)
1,236 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
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