2025-11-23
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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
1,033 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
333 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
701 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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