2025-11-23
What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?
This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)
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Cosmos DB – Monitoring performance
Cosmos DB has become my latest focus and I hope to start sharing more about ways you can use it. Cosmos DB doesn’t provide the same granularity of query...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-15)
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Presentation 5: Presenting Performance Tuning with Memory Grants
So it’s about a week after SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. The event was amazing, tons of great people and in a great venue. Here’s the details of what happened...
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Writing a presentation 4: Practice and improvement
My presentation so far is really rough. I need to improve a lot before SQL Saturday Chicago! For now, the...
2019-03-20
1,012 reads
SSMS tip: Splitting the same query window
This is a trick I use in SQL Server Management Studio at least once a week.
Today’s scripts will be screenshots...
2019-03-18 (first published: 2019-03-02)
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Writing a presentation 3: Entering the PowerPoint world
This is a series I’m writing as I prepare for SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. My session is called Performance tuning...
2019-03-18
314 reads
One week blogging hiatus
I’m taking a brief break from daily blogging, even though it has been a ton of fun.
No excuses
I hope...
2019-03-11
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Optimize for ad hoc VS sp_executesql?
Happy Friday! We made it. Here’s something I came across while testing optimize for ad hoc for this week’s blog...
2019-03-11 (first published: 2019-02-22)
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Favorite community scripts and their parameters
Here’s some of my favorite community scripts and how I like to run them. If you haven’t tried the optional...
2019-03-09
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers