Redgate Alexa Contest Winners!
A couple of weeks ago we had a small contest here to pick a skill for Alexa. The entries were...
2017-05-05
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
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Food On Your Table
I was asked, “Who here thinks that PASS helps people put food on the table?” To my shame, I initially...
2017-04-25
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It's all about Customer Service
Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.
2017-04-24
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The Age of Data and Software Development
I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool...
2017-04-17
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Alerts From Azure Automation
In a previous post, I showed how to set up statistics maintenance for your Azure databases using Azure Automation. However,...
2017-04-04
638 reads
Learning Azure From The Web
I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...
2017-04-03
429 reads
Random Blogging Challenge Results
The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...
2017-03-29
649 reads
Sharing With You In All Fifty States
I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...
2017-03-28
449 reads
Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)
3,119 reads
Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Forums
Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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