2020-01-27
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Grant Fritchey
2020-01-23
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Causality Tracking in Extended Events
If you go through all the stuff I’ve written about Extended Events, you’ll find that I use causality tracking quite a bit. However, I’ve never just talked about what...
2020-01-22 (first published: 2020-01-13)
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2020-01-21
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Microsoft Tools That Help Query Tuning
Query tuning is not easy. In fact, for a lot of people, you shouldn’t even try. It’s much easier to buy more, bigger, better hardware. Yeah, the query is...
2020-01-21
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Extended Events Misperceptions: Profiler is Easier
I know, I know, I’m on #teamexevents so I think that Extended Events can do no wrong, but let’s address this thought that Profiler is easier. Now, if we’re...
2020-01-20
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How Do We Prove Expertise?
Today, Grant Fritchey talks about the two paths to expertise for database professionals and why it’s hard to really know if someone is an expert.
2020-01-17
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Let's Fix a Password Problem
Grant discusses the need for password managers to help prevent security issues between different accounts.
2020-01-15
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Execution Plans: First Operator
The first time you see a new execution plan that you’re examining to fix a performance problem, something broken, whatever, you should always start by looking at the first...
2020-01-14 (first published: 2020-01-06)
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2020-01-11
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Blogs
sys.xp_delete_files and ‘allow filesystem enumeration’: two new undocumented items in SQL Server 2019
sys.xp_delete_files and 'allow filesystem enumeration': two new undocumented items in SQL Server 2019… Continue...
Actual Difference Between EXISTS(SELECT 1 …), EXISTS(SELECT * …), and EXISTS(SELECT column …)
Is EXISTS(SELECT 1 ...) better than EXISTS(SELECT * ...)? Who would know better than...
ANSI_WARNINGS = OFF can break update statements with some SQL features
By Will Assaf
Working on a SQL 2017 database where an external, non-Microsoft application has direct access...
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SSMS Freezing when Editing SQL Agent Job Steps
I've spent several hours trying to overcome an odd technical bug on two SQL...
cardinality estimation
Just a quick question I'm putting in a new SQL 2019 server and an...
Attribute in the hierarchy display as one value
Hello Friends, I want to display the attributes in a hierarchy as one value...
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