Speaker of the Month, July 2014
Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...
2014-07-11
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
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Worst Day of a DBAs Life
Red Gate Software is running a campaign around coping with the worst day of a DBAs life. We’ve been posting...
2014-07-08
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Reflections on the 2014 PASS Summit Selection Process
Oh we are a bunch of high school kids at heart. Maybe high school never ends (and there’s a nightmare,...
2014-07-03
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Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures
Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...
2014-07-03 (first published: 2014-07-02)
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The Curse of Working With A DBA
I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...
2014-06-30
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The Utility of Execution Plans in Natively Compiled Procedures
I’m actually having problems identifying the utility of execution plans when working with natively compiled procedures. Or, put another way,...
2014-06-30 (first published: 2014-06-25)
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Passion
I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...
2014-06-26
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The Curse of Relational Databases
Let’s face it, none of Information Technology is easy. Oh yeah, there are those few geniuses that have an absolute...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Natively Compiled Procedures and Bad Execution Plans
I’ve been exploring how natively compiled procedures are portrayed within execution plans. There have been two previous posts on the...
2014-06-17
1,360 reads
Differences In Native Compiled Procedures Execution Plans
All the wonderful functionality that in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures provide in SQL Server 2014 is pretty cool. But,...
2014-06-13 (first published: 2014-06-10)
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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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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