Speaker of the Month, June 2014
It’s not like I can’t find plenty of great presentations here in the US, but, while I was over in...
2014-06-06
753 reads
Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
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Natively Compiled Procedures and Execution Plans
The combination of in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures in SQL Server 2014 makes for some seriously screaming fast performance....
2014-06-05
1,365 reads
Add an Instance to SQL Server Azure Virtual Machine
How do you add an instance to your local SQL Server installation? You run the executable that you probably downloaded...
2014-05-19 (first published: 2014-05-13)
1,489 reads
Carolina Cruise
I’m going to speak at three user groups in three days in North and South Carolina. Evidently this is known...
2014-05-09
494 reads
Speaker of the Month, May 2014
Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...
2014-05-02
1,198 reads
Microsoft Azure Automation
Microsoft just announced a new mechanism for managing your Azure resources, Automation. You can check out the documentation on it...
2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)
1,786 reads
Azure Automation
I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...
2014-04-23
1,380 reads
I Am Better Than You
That is a patently false statement and total BS. It sure does crawl up your spine though doesn’t it? Why...
2014-04-22
934 reads
SQL Server First Aid
If you take basic first aid, say a CPR course, you’ll learn a handy mnemonic for the primary assessment you...
2014-04-15
1,120 reads
Sharing a Good Idea
I posted earlier about my experiments with Microsoft Curah!. (yes, technically the period should follow the exclamation since the exclamation...
2014-04-14
585 reads
Blogs
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...
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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