Webcast – Small Changes Can Make a World of Difference
This Thursday, 10AM GMT, I will be hosted by Dell’s Richard Douglas (blog|twitter) for a webcast. I will present my...
2014-03-18
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A Community Challenge
Earlier this week, I delivered a presentation called “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to my local user group.
Among other...
2014-03-05
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The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster
I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...
2014-02-20
4,390 reads
Know When it’s Good Enough
Here’s a newsflash: You may not thing so, but you are expensive. There’s no point in endless performance tuning. I love...
2014-01-28
710 reads
Things I Learned in 2013
It’s 2014 now. I hope you had fun in new year’s eve.
2013 was an amazing and intense year. To recap...
2014-01-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Using CXPacket Waits to Detect Query Bottlenecks
This post is for T-SQL Tuesday #49, the monthly blog party of the community.
This tradition was started by Adam...
2013-12-10
1,430 reads
Interviews with Brent Ozar, Adam Machanic and Denny Cherry for SQL Server Radio
While in SQLRally Amsterdam, I had the honor to interview Brent Ozar (blog | twitter), Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog | twitter)...
2013-12-09
543 reads
My SQLRally Experience
The past week I had the pleasure to attend SQLRally Amsterdam.
I took a flight from Tel-Aviv to Amsterdam and got...
2013-11-11
768 reads
How to Limit IO Requests with SQL Server 2014 Resource Governor
Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 in order to allow us have better control over our system resource...
2013-10-09
2,238 reads
How to Become a Better DBA
Whether you’re just starting out or already a few years in the game, you’re probably wondering how you can become...
2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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