Constraints and SELECT Statements
I’ve posted previously about how a foreign key constraint can change how a SELECT query behaves. Logically that just makes...
2015-04-16 (first published: 2015-04-06)
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Grant Fritchey
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I Am Grateful For
I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...
2015-04-10
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Error: Unknown Property ismemoryoptimized
If you’re starting the process of moving your databases in Azure SQL Databast to v12, you need to do one...
2015-04-07
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Does the New Cardinality Estimator Reduce Bad Parameter Sniffing
No. Next question.
Although, that answer can be slightly, ever so slightly, nuanced…
Parameter sniffing is a good thing. But, like a...
2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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Speaker of the Month: April 2015
One of my favorite events of the year is the SQL Saturday in Silicon Valley. They’ve had four of them...
2015-04-03
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Simple Parameterization and Data Types
Simple paramaterization occurs when the optimizer determines that a query would benefit from a reusable plan, so it takes the...
2015-04-02 (first published: 2015-03-24)
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PASS Board Update: March 2015
Hello all,
It’s been a while since my last update. Sorry. I’ve just been traveling and presenting and working on books...
2015-03-31
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Toshiba Portege Z301-A Review
Last year I purchased a Lenovo W530. Nightmares then ensued. Nice laptop if you just want to use it as...
2015-03-25
614 reads
Monitoring for Timeouts
The question came up at SQL Rally, “Can you use Extended Events to monitor for query timeouts?”
My immediate response was...
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)
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How To Speak At SQL Saturday Events
The PASS SQL Saturday events are meant to be a place to grow the pool of speakers, provide a mechanism...
2015-03-16
843 reads
Blogs
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
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...
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