How Do the Experts Become Experts?
How do the experts get to that level? A few thoughts today in a guest editorial from Kathi Kellenberger.
2026-06-10
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Kathi Kellenberger
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Everything I Needed to Know Used to be Found in One Book
Books used to be the source of knowledge, but times have changed.
2026-05-25
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Query Tuning Assistant: A Tool for Upgrades
If you have been working with SQL Server long enough, you have probably been involved with a SQL Server 2000 to 2005 upgrade. It was painful for many shops due to the deprecation of some features like DTS and the removal of old-fashioned comma joins with the plus operator. It was worth the pain as […]
2019-03-25
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Doing the Right Thing
From the time you rise in the morning until you close your eyes at night, your day is filled with thousands of small decisions, many that you don’t even think about. For each decision that you make, there is a probably a good choice and a poor choice available. Most of the time, the good […]
2019-01-28
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PASS Summit 2018 Recap
This year, PASS celebrated the 20th PASS Summit. As it has been many times, this year’s Summit was held in Seattle. PASS Summit has visited other locations such as Orlando and Charlotte, but, at least to me, it feels like home when it’s hosted in Seattle. For those of us who have participated for many […]
2018-11-19
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Explaining Our Professions to Our Parents
Have you ever had a difficult time explaining what your job entails to your parents or other family members? You may be working in a field that didn’t exist 20 years ago, such as mobile device development, or your job may be so specialized that non-technical people will never understand. Now that my job title […]
2018-11-05
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Skills for Everyone in Tech
Today Kathi talks about the skills that all of us need to succeed in our careers.
2018-10-30
226 reads
What Should You Look for in a SQL Monitoring Tool?
Performance is a common reason to monitor SQL Server. The work day of a database administrator is often interrupted with unexpected calls about slowness in applications or reports. But, how does the performance today compare to the performance last week or last month? Can the root cause of the issue be traced to the database […]
2018-10-08
56 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
94 reads
SQL Community
Back in my early days as a database administrator, almost 16 years ago, I happened upon a web site called SQL Server Central. Because I found so many useful articles and forum posts, the site was open in my browser at work every single day. It was a great source of information, and eventually, I […]
2018-04-23
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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