Wait Stats, Here and gone again?
Microsoft recently introduced a handy new feature to query plans: waitstats. That’s right, you can get actual runtime waitstats for...
2017-04-05
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Microsoft recently introduced a handy new feature to query plans: waitstats. That’s right, you can get actual runtime waitstats for...
2017-04-05
497 reads
It seems like SSMS has seen better days. Many developers I have worked with recently complain about Out of Memory...
2017-03-22
623 reads
Designing a rock solid application and database can be difficult. New features and overlapping features mean that you’re able to...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-03)
3,392 reads
Maintaining a database is an important job of the DBA role. One of the many maintenance tasks is ensuring that...
2017-03-03
463 reads
If you’ve read my blog, I’m sure by now you know that I have no love for GUI tools. I...
2017-02-15 (first published: 2017-02-08)
3,373 reads
People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
2,208 reads
Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
3,515 reads
I’ve been in technology for twenty years now. I’ve seen hundreds of environments, nearly 300 while employed at Microsoft alone.
One...
2016-12-30
774 reads
I recently worked on a project for fraud. This project needed to relate 67 million accounts to one another “Kevin...
2016-12-27
1,296 reads
I was building out a blog post about cardinality today and noticed that sys.dm_exec_query_stats was getting cleared my my Surface...
2016-12-27 (first published: 2016-12-08)
1,981 reads
In the realm of data science, SQL (Structured Query Language) reigns supreme. It's your...
By Brian Kelley
The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...
In today's data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a blazing-hot skill. It's your...
The below code works for backup files only from local drives. When replaced with...
I have been asked to fine-tune the following SQL that was written by a...
In this scenario, I seek assistance in implementing row-level permissions for a table named...
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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