PostgreSQL and Instrumentation
I’m still learning PostgreSQL and one of the things I’ve been looking at a lot lately is instrumentation. What do I mean? Well, if you’re in SQL Server, think,...
2024-08-23 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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Grant Fritchey
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Kilt Day!
This is a quick blog post to announce that I am reviving Kilt Day at PASS Data Community Summit. Over the last few years… ah hell, let’s just say...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-01)
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2024-07-31 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
2024-07-27
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Only Capture Extended Events For a Given Time
It’s a great question. Let’s say you want to capture stored procedure completions. But, you only want to capture them between 3AM and 4AM. Can you do it? Output...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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Data Technology Learning Resources
Hey all! Quick one here. Tracy Boggiano, awesome person that she is, has put together an interesting collection of data over on GitHub. It’s titled DBA Resources, but it...
2024-07-12 (first published: 2024-06-27)
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Exploring Windows Function Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see windows functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Windows Function...
2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-06-24)
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Use Your Voice
If you want more of a career and less of a job, one thing you will have to do is learn to use your voice. I mean this on...
2024-07-08
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Shout Your Successes
I was at a customer this week (sorry, can't share who). I spent the day talking about Redgate Monitor and how it can help with query tuning, server management, and estate management. Through the day, the data pros at the company were sharing how they were managing hundreds of servers and several thousand databases. They […]
2024-06-29
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Exploring Window Functions Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see window functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Window Functions...
2024-06-24
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Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
By Chris Yates
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Forums
taking the rcsi dive
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers