Checking CHECKDB
Everyone should be running DBCC CHECKDB on their systems. We not have some help in determining if we are doing this.
2018-05-22
76 reads
Editorials
2018-05-21
131 reads
SQL Server Gets Smarter and Smarter
With each recent version of SQL Server, Microsoft has added features that can be used to improve query performance with much less effort than traditional index and query tuning require. First was Query Store, introduced with 2016. When enabled, this feature allows you to easily find regression in query performance due to changing execution plans. […]
2018-05-21
67 reads
Mercenary
Steve Jones talks about making deliberate career choices, or just moving from place to place without any worry about the job. Do you care about what work you do? Or is it just a job?
2018-05-18 (first published: 2014-10-14)
225 reads
2018-05-17
101 reads
The Value of Data
Data can be valuable, and there's a new book that compares the value of data today to that of oil in the previous century. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on why we should consider this to be the case.
2018-05-16 (first published: 2014-09-25)
153 reads
Does the Tone matter?
Does the tone of communication matters to you that much that it affects your work in some way?
2018-05-15
104 reads
How do you deal with disappointment?
Disappointment is hard, but you get to choose how you react to it.
2018-05-14
92 reads
2018-05-11
65 reads
Power BI Desktop on the Mac
Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo visualizations from Microsoft customers. I've seen a predictive maintenance visualization for airplanes, one for diabetes […]
2018-05-10
3,463 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Nachlophobia
By Steve Jones
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty...
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Forums
Lies You Should Believe - Anything is possible
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A Strange Query
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Primary and Secondary Filegroup
Hello, I am having database primary and secondary filegroup. Few tables/indexes are partitioned on...
Question of the Day
A Strange Query
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