IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???
SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...
2017-11-08
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DBA Resolutions
It’s said that “promises are made to be broken”. Surely database administrators don’t fall in that category? It’s that time...
2016-12-28
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SQL Server on Linux, first observations.
Is this one of those weird food combinations like honey on pizza or salt and pepper on apples that’s going...
2016-11-22
566 reads
“Witch” Statistics?
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three...
2016-09-20
394 reads
SQL Server, a true Olympian
Suffering SQL Server Performance Issues?: A story of Olympic sprints and handy SQL Server hints!!!
Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest runner,...
2016-08-18
370 reads
SQL 2012 Identity Columns Feature
Recently, a customer mentioned that they seemed to be missing records in tables they don’t delete from. Generally, at this...
2016-02-25
1,436 reads
Freaky statistics feature
SQL Server statistics can make things a bit freaky. You might have read one of my previous articles portraying a...
2015-10-30
1,520 reads
SSMS 2016 – Compare Execution Plans
Microsoft are releasing regular CTP updates for SQL Server 2016. In the very recent release (CTP 2.4), there is a...
2015-10-20 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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No thrills about spills
Statistics, in simplest terms, refer to the distribution of data in a column or index. They are represented in a...
2015-09-21
755 reads
Work of art – the intra query parallelism deadlock graphs
Look at some of the graphs produced by the intra query parallelism deadlocks, below.
Bart Duncan explains this “phenomenon” (bug, rather)...
2015-09-10
1,357 reads
Blogs
Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
A New Word: Ochisia
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
Create a Numbers Table in Power Query
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
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Writer methods in PowerQuery (LOL)
I'm using PowerQuery in Excel on my desktop. (Yeah, I know you can do...
Need help with GROUP BY...
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Need help with GROUP BY...
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Question of the Day
The Density Vector
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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