2019-11-01 (first published: 2017-09-11)
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Gary Strange
CosmosDB Change Feed Processing
This article was created to help readers understand CosmosDB change feed processing.
2018-11-13
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Dynamically Query a 100 Million Row Table-Efficiently
This article describes methods of creating dynamic queries without the use of dynamic SQL to efficiently access large tables.
2016-05-27 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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DAX: Topn is not a Filter
In this document I will demonstrate how using the TOPN function in a DAX query doesn’t necessarily do what you may expect.
2014-05-01
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DAX Query - Part 2
A more detailed look at the DAX language and some of its more frequently used functions
2013-12-13 (first published: 2013-05-02)
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DAX Query Basics
In this document I will attempt to talk you through writing your first very simple DAX queries. For the purpose of this document I will query the rather familiar Adventure Works Tabular Cube.
2013-12-12 (first published: 2012-09-25)
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Asynchronous Procesing with Service Broker
Service Broker is a great feature that allows you to defer processing in SQL Server. Learn how you can have processes work together, but in an asynchronous fashion in this piece from Gary Strange.
2011-05-17
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 [email protected] 8 [email protected]If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
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