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Why Use R Services?

I ran across a blog post from the very talented Joe Sack recenty, who I hope makes a few more minutes for me the next time we’re in the same town together ;). The post is a look at some … Continue reading

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SQL Server 2016 is Just Faster

I’ve enjoyed the series of posts from Microsoft on the ways in which SQL Server 2016 was improved and is faster. Some of these posts show improvement without any change in your code. Some showcase features that might require change, … Continue reading

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Stretch Pricing

I have to admit that I was really excited about the Stretch Database feature in SQL Server 2016. This will automatically archive older data away from your database, but let the query optimizer go get the data if needed. That’s … Continue reading

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It’s 2016 RLS for T-SQL Tuesday #79

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. I missed last month, being busy with travel, though I should go ahead and write that post. Maybe that will be next week’s task. In this case, Michael J Swart is hosting this month’s blog … Continue reading

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