Jobs That Beat The Caring Out Of You
I was inspired by Jen McCown’s story here. Read that first. It’s WAY better than mine. This is not an April Fools post. Fools are involved, but none were...
2019-04-01
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
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Containers Are The Present, Not the Future
Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]
2019-03-30
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Can You Force A Parallel Plan in Query Store?
I love the questions I get when presenting: Can You Force a Parallel Plan in Query Store. I haven’t a clue. The trick I think is going to be...
2019-03-25
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Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing...
2019-03-22 (first published: 2019-03-11)
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Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about the databases. Uptime, performance, behaviors, errors, corruption and a...
2019-03-19
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Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about...
2019-03-19
466 reads
Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred within it. If you haven’t heard of the GDPR,...
2019-03-18
15 reads
Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred...
2019-03-18
339 reads
Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and...
2019-03-13
431 reads
Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and oh boy, did it go off the rails). It’s...
2019-03-13
7 reads
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Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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