Query Store on Azure SQL Database
Under the covers, Azure SQL Database is just good old fashioned SQL Server and this includes Query Store on Azure. While many things can be different when working with...
2021-05-03
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Grant Fritchey
Using Extended Events Live Data With Azure
In my last post I showed some shortcomings of Extended Events, however, it is possible to use Live Data with Azure. Let’s explore exactly how that works. To get...
2021-04-26
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Extended Events and Azure SQL Database
Knowledge of how your system behaves is vital to better control, maintain, and grow the system. While Azure provides all sorts of wonderful assistance within Azure SQL Database, you’re...
2021-04-22 (first published: 2021-04-19)
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The Thriving Data Community
A while back I wrote an editorial about how I believed the data community would easily continue after the PASS organization was no more. I'm pleased as punch to be able to report that I was right. Not because I enjoy being right (I do, who doesn't), but because I care very much for the […]
2021-04-18
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Things We Are Missing
I read this great little blog post called "Trying to Notice What's Missing." It's not real long and it's worth your time. If you'd like a TLDR, the author points out how in-person meetings at conferences resulted in enhancements to open source software due to superior, in-person, communication. Strictly on a personal level, I miss […]
2021-04-17
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Extended Events: Embrace the XML
While XML is, without a doubt, a giant pain in the bottom, sometimes, the best way to deal with Extended Events is to simply embrace the XML. Now, I...
2021-04-12 (first published: 2021-04-05)
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Extended Events: Avoid the XML
One story I hear over and over goes like this: I tried setting up Extended Events, but then I saw the output was XML so I stopped. Look, I...
2021-04-08 (first published: 2021-03-29)
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A Year of “Good Morning!”
Just a little over a year ago, I started posting a “Good Morning!” tweet on Twitter every work day. I’ve kept it up for over a year and I’d...
2021-04-06
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Query Store as an Upgrade Tool
There are a lot of uses for Query Store, but one of the most interesting is as an upgrade tool. We all know that upgrades in SQL Server can...
2021-03-29 (first published: 2021-03-22)
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Apologies
Hello all! I wanted to apologize to you. I haven’t been keeping up with the blog well at all over the last couple of months. I have simply been...
2021-03-15
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Daily Coping 6 May 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
All jobs that ran during a given time frame.
Short post today. Simple query that will tell you every job that ran between...
Instructions for Handling Errors of MySQL and PHPMyAdmin
One of my clients, Justin Williams, is a blogger. He owns a website named...
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