Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation
This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.
Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...
2019-03-08
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Finding single use plans in the plan cache
A single use plan is an entry in the SQL Server plan cache that was only used once. When a...
2019-03-07 (first published: 2019-02-19)
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Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump
For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....
2019-03-07
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Writing a new session/Preparing for SQL Saturday Chicago
So, I’m presenting a session at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 23, 2019. This is a new session, called Performance...
2019-03-06
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CTRL + F in SSMS execution plans
I just discovered this the other day and I had to share it.
First, we need a query in Management...
2019-03-05
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Partitioning 3: Beyond just partition elimination
In Partitioning 2, I showed how to analyze which partitions were accessed by our Index Seek. However, we were searching...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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It’s always parameter sniffing: Line Endings
Combining a few themes of recent posts today. I’ll mix in some sp_executesql, it’s always parameter sniffing, and the plan...
2019-02-28
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A short guide to sp_executesql
Last week I talked about single use plans. One way to increase execution plan re-use is to parameterize queries by...
2019-02-27
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Partitioning 1: Non-partition aligned queries
Here’s my take on partitioning. I’ll be focusing on getting queries to perform on partitioned tables, and not on partition...
2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-11)
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Database context and compatibility level
To add onto yesterday’s post about which cardinality estimator (CE) your query will use, there’s an additional complexity. This specifically...
2019-02-26
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers