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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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
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Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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