Performance on readable replicas in Availability Groups
I apologize in advance if I mess up the terminology.
I’ve worked with a moderate read workload on a readable replica...
2019-02-08
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Dynamic Data Masking in the execution plan
I think Dynamic Data Masking is pretty cool. The idea is basically to provide a mask for certain users when...
2019-02-07
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Bad indexing can show up in wait statistics
At first, this statement might sound a bit confusing. Usually, we expect wait statistics to show us what a query...
2019-02-06
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Two T-SQL features that I appreciate
We occasionally get cool improvements in T-SQL in newer versions of SQL Server. Here’s a short post on some of...
2019-02-05
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A brief introduction for bcp
I end up using the bcp utility to move tables between environments, and I’ve found that a lot of the...
2019-02-04 (first published: 2019-01-16)
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SQL Server Monitoring: Keeping track of missing index requests
A lot of us turn to execution plans when we see a slow running query, and it’s not uncommon to...
2019-02-04
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SQL Server Monitoring: What queries should you monitor?
I previously wrote about measuring wait statistics. This matters a lot, because you can track historically what wait statistics are...
2019-02-02
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How many plans are in the plan cache for a stored procedure?
It depends on where you’re looking and how many statements are in the stored procedure.
Let’s take a look at some...
2019-01-31
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Memory Grants part 3: How much memory can one query get?
When you build a brand new shiny SQL Server, you want to get a lot of memory so your queries...
2019-01-31 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Query tuning: The IN clause
This post will cover the IN clause and another way to rewrite the same logic. I don’t intend to say...
2019-01-29
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