Dharmendra Keshari

Dharmendra is a SQL Server/Microsoft Data Platform professional with over eight years of experience. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on blogs, speaking at several SQL events. His passion and focus is to explore and share more and more on SQL Server.

Introduction to Extended Events

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Since I started playing with Extended Events, it has been my favorite toy for performance troubleshooting. It was introduced in...

2017-11-29

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SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART4 – INSTALL SQL SERVER AGENT ON RHEL

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In my previous tips, I explained about install RHEL Server on the virtual machine, install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise...

2017-11-25

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SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART3 – INSTALL SQL SERVER COMMAND-LINE TOOLS ON RHEL

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

As installing SQL Server on Linux doesn’t install SQL Server command-line tools by default. So, you have to install it...

2017-11-23

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Finding Input Parameters in an Execution Plan

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

The query execution plan is a map of work which SQL Server is going to perform to execute a query....

2017-11-22 (first published: 2017-11-11)

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SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART2 – INSTALL SQL SERVER ON RHEL

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In the previous blog, we discussed how to install RHEL Server on the virtual machine. In this quick tutorial, we...

2017-11-22

836 reads

SQL Server on Linux Installation On RHEL Server – PART1

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In the previous posts, we learned how toinstall SQL Server on Ubuntu Server&install SQL Server on CentOS. Today, we’ll walk...

2017-11-21

1,050 reads

Figuring out Time-Out Prone queries

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Recently, I was helping one of the community attendees on the SQL Server Query Time-Out issue. Once we are done...

2017-11-20 (first published: 2017-11-09)

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SQL Operation Studio Tool

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Microsoft finally has launched most awaited tool – SQL Operation Studio (aka OpsStudio)!!!
SQL Operation studio is a lightweight open source...

2017-11-20

1,579 reads

Getting Query Execution Statistics

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

If you hate things that are slow, I bet you certainly want to know the reason for the slowness. So,...

2017-11-17 (first published: 2017-11-06)

6,246 reads

Over-Indexing can hurt your SQL Server performance

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked...

2017-11-15 (first published: 2017-11-05)

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Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward

This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...

dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts

By Koen Verbeeck

You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)

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Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.

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Hyperscale Replicas IV

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The SQL Server Date Magic: When CAST and CONVERT Keep Your Index Seek

By Dhananjay Chaudhari

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Hyperscale Replicas IV

In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?

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