Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Check Database Size with DBCC_pdw_showspaceused
There is a way to view the size of a particular PDW database using the DBCC_pdw_showspaceused command via the NEXUS...
2012-08-28
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Avoid ShuffleMove and PartitionMove Operations
There are a couple process hungry operations that can be avoided when developing or migrating T-SQL queries into Microsoft’s Parallel Data...
2012-08-27
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Avoid ShuffleMove and PartitionMove Operations
There are a couple process hungry operations that can be avoided when developing or migrating T-SQL queries into Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) environment. With proper planning and attention to...
2012-08-27
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Usage of SYSDATETIME() vs GETDATE()
Usage of GETDATE() dates back to the earliest versions of SQL server and has become the primary blade in our...
2012-07-21
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SQL SERVER - CTRL+SHIFT+] Shortcut to Select Code Between Two Parenthesis
Reblogged from Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave:
Every weekend brings creative ideas and accidents brings best unknown secrets in...
2012-07-12
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Basics: CREATE TABLE and CTAS Syntax
After forgetting the syntax for temp tables a couple of times, I decided to write a brief overview of the...
2012-07-12
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Dynamic Multi-Threaded SSIS using C#
Here is a snippet of code that will assist in the dynamic ‘spin-up’ of duplicate SSIS packages. To put it...
2012-07-09
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Lesson 1: – Basic Architecture Overview
I’ll begin my coverage of Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) architecture / appliance with a brief overview of the Massively Parallel...
2012-07-09
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SSIS How-To: Reuse Existing Connection Manager to Execute SQL in Script Task
There’s a myriad of examples out there on how to execute a sql task via OLEDB connections and C# in a...
2012-04-09
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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