Reblog: December 5 to December 11
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I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-12-12
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Friday Followup For December 12, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-12-12
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SQL Bits – Europe’s largest SQL Conference
4th 7th March
ExCeL Centre in London, England
SQLBits have announced their dates for 2015.
I have been three times and...
2014-12-12
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T-SQL Tricks – Trigger Your Memory
I was scanning Twitter the other day and saw a note from someone that they had written a query using...
2014-12-18 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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Exam Prep 70-463: SSIS Connection Managers
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2014-12-17 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD
I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do...
2014-12-11
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Rebuilding and Reorganizing Clustered Columnstore Indexes
Clustered Columnstore Indexes, as well as “regular” indexes, support the Rebuild and Reorganize operations. However, the meaning of those operations...
2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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Converting Dates
I ran across a post recently where someone had dates stored as characters (never good), but also in this format:...
2014-12-10
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Sequence feature TIP #76
Although it is a old feature for those who knows ORACLE but for SQL server developers it is a new...
2014-12-10
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SQL Saturday NYC Update #2
Just over 2 weeks now since SQL Saturday NYC went live and planning is in full force. An update on...
2014-12-10
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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