Please, Call Me Richard
I presented a session at the SQL Saturday event in Oklahoma City last weekend. The event itself was pretty good....
2012-08-28
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Grant Fritchey
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These People Are Exceptional
I should know. I was one of the judges of this year’s Exceptional DBA of the Year award. I had...
2012-08-28
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Another Execution Plan… In the Cloud!
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how different execution plans look when using the Azure Management Portal. I...
2012-08-23 (first published: 2012-08-20)
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24 Hours of PASS, Fall 2012
It’s time to get your learn on again. The schedule for the Fall 24 Hours of PASS is up and...
2012-08-22
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Coming to Your Town
I can’t sing and I can’t play and I left the young generation behind a while ago, but I’m still...
2012-08-16
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Being Right, the Other Side
I read an excellent article by Camille Fournier about the importance of recognizing that being right is not the only...
2012-08-15
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Execution Plans … In the Cloud!
If you’re moving to a fully-fledged SQL database as part of Azure you may never even touch SQL Server Management...
2012-08-10 (first published: 2012-08-01)
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SQL In The City: London 2012, Recap
Wow!
How’s that for a recap?
The concept for the SQL in the City events is pretty simple. Put on a free...
2012-07-17 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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Does Encryption Affect Seeing Statements in Deadlock Graphs?
Good question. I don’t have a clue. So let’s set up a test. I’ll create this stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE DL2e
...
2012-07-03 (first published: 2012-06-25)
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Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified
One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...
2012-07-02
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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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