T-SQL Tuesday Sharing Cookies
It has been a while since I have participated in a T-SQL Tuesday but I felt the urge to do...
2019-03-12
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All About SQL
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Query Store
I personally think that query store has been a fantastic feature. I find myself using it for query performance troubleshooting...
2019-03-05
622 reads
Azure SQL Database and Trace Flags
You cannot enable trace flags (globally or by session) within Azure SQL Database but did you know that some global...
2019-02-26
602 reads
Azure SQL Database Online Columnstore Unicorn and Rainbow Theory
As Microsoft states “online clustered columnstore index build enables you to optimize and compress your data with minimal downtime without...
2019-02-21
183 reads
Azure SQL Database and Transaction Log
Checking out the transaction log in Azure SQL Database. If you are curious like me, you will want to know...
2019-02-13
187 reads
Automating T-SQL for Azure SQL Database via Logic Apps
Have you ever wanted to capture the T-SQL, waits, sessions IDs (etc) at a specific time for Azure SQL Database?...
2019-02-06
224 reads
SQL Server Looking into Differential Backups
I seem to be writing solely about Azure so to shake things up a bit I am going back to...
2019-02-05
184 reads
Classify your Azure SQL Database
Here I am talking about SQL Data Discovery & Classification feature that is built into Azure SQL Database. With this feature you...
2019-02-04
191 reads
Azure SQL Database Roadmap
I do not usually link straight to other blog posts or technical papers but I really had to with this...
2019-01-24
305 reads
Azure SQL Database and Transaction Log
Checking out the transaction log in Azure SQL Database. If you are curious like me, you will want to know...
2019-01-23
1,552 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers