Privacy and Protection in the Age of the GDPR
We’re seeing more and more GDPR-style laws coming out from various governments. With the GDPR starting to do enforcement at...
2018-12-10
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Grant Fritchey
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Query Store and Plan Cache Plans Compared
Query Store plans and the plans in cache are identical, right? There won’t be differences because the plan that is...
2018-12-03 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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Bad Query Performance Tips Rebutted
Once upon a time, someone, somewhere, wrote a list of bad query performance tips and they’ve been copied all over...
2018-11-20 (first published: 2018-11-12)
3,235 reads
Explicitly Drop Temporary Tables Or Wait For Cleanup?
I was recently asked if we are going to see performance differences if we explicitly drop temporary tables. I couldn’t...
2018-11-07 (first published: 2018-10-29)
3,990 reads
What Is Happening, Right Now, At the PASS Summit?
Honestly, that’s a very hard question to answer. I mean, first of all, you can look at the schedule. There...
2018-11-05
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Why Did a Plan Get Removed From Cache?
I was recently asked if we could tell why a plan was removed from cache. If you read this blog,...
2018-10-26 (first published: 2018-10-22)
1,901 reads
Using Extended Events to Capture Implicit Conversions
Using the appropriate data type to avoid conversions or implicit conversions is a fundamental approach to good T-SQL coding practices....
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
1,806 reads
Database Fundamentals #19: JOINS
The last Database Fundamentals post introduced the SELECT and FROM commands. We’re going to start using JOIN operations shortly, but...
2018-10-22 (first published: 2018-10-08)
2,968 reads
Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer...
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-10-01)
2,724 reads
Introducing Azure Data Studio
If you’re watching Microsoft Ignite or tracking the information coming out of it on social media, then you know that...
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-24)
3,566 reads
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Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
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Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196
By Steve Jones
This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on...
Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler
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One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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