Scary Reading List for Halloween
I know I focus on community, SQL Server, professional development and process. But you need to do other stuff occasionally...
2012-10-26
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Grant Fritchey
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Clustered Indexes Have Statistics Too
It may seem obvious, but I’ve heard more than one person suggest to me that statistics on a clustered index...
2012-10-22
1,162 reads
SQL In The City: Seattle
If you missed all the great speakers on the five city tour of SQL in the City, don’t despair. Many...
2012-10-17
1,147 reads
Why Tune Queries?
It’s just a query against the database. If things are running slow, buy some more memory, a faster CPU or...
2012-10-17 (first published: 2012-10-15)
3,000 reads
RML Utilities and SQL Server 2012
I’m working through some code that I haven’t touched recently and I’m running it for the first time on a...
2012-10-16
1,477 reads
Interviewing a DBA
I’m not a fan of trivia style interview questions. Yes, I ask a few because you have to in order...
2012-09-26 (first published: 2012-09-24)
3,353 reads
PASS Elections 2012
Yeah, it’s that time again. And we have a magnificent slate of people running. I mean truly amazing and wonderful...
2012-09-21
711 reads
Conference in Florida: SQL Server Live
This conference is new to me. In case it’s new to you, I thought I’d take a moment to point...
2012-09-14
982 reads
SSC Clinic: Finding the rogue query
When you're getting spikes of high CPU, it's quite likely it's a rogue query. But how do you find out which query? Grant Fritchey explains, using SQL Monitor.
2012-09-13
6,246 reads
SQL Server vs. Oracle
Just so we’re clear, I use SQL Server. I like SQL Server. But, this doesn’t mean I have anything against...
2012-09-07
5,021 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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