Q&A from the DBA Fundamentals Virtual Chapter presentation
A couple weeks ago I presented to the DBA Fundamentals virtual chapter. The presentation was recorded and is available from...
2016-02-16
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Gail Shaw
- Interests: Computer Graphics, Aikido, Roleplaying
On the addition of useless where clauses
I remember a forum thread from a while back. The question was on how to get rid of the index...
2016-02-10 (first published: 2016-02-02)
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and other pointless query rewrites
In a similar vein to last week’s blog post… I heard an interesting comment recently. “Change that Column != 2 to...
2016-02-09
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Does an index scan always read the entire index?
No.
That’s a bit short for a blog post, so let me explain. First, the difference between a seek and a...
2016-01-26
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Natively compiled user-defined functions
One new thing that SQL Server 2016 has added is the ability to natively compile user-defined functions. Previously, native compilation,...
2016-01-19 (first published: 2016-01-12)
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Stop using Task Manager to check SQL’s memory usage!
There’s two fairly common questions I see on the forums around SQL Server’s memory usage. Either the question asks why...
2016-01-19
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Book Review 2015
It’s been a few years since I wrote a review of books I’ve read, so this isn’t going to list...
2016-01-15 (first published: 2016-01-05)
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When naming transactions causes an error
For the last part of the series on transactions, I’m going to look at a problem that I ran across...
2015-12-21 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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Why would you want to name a transaction?
Something that i keep seeing in documentation, in forum code and in real systems is transactions that have names
BEGIN TRANSACTION...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Savepoints and conditional transactions
This is the second in a short series on transactions. In the previous part I discussed nested transactions and showed...
2015-11-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Advice I Like: Responsibility
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
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AI Observability Challenges in FinOps as a DBA
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Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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