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
107 reads
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)
2,416 reads
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
156 reads
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
522 reads
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)
4,266 reads
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
2,022 reads
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)
1,722 reads
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)
2,568 reads
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)
5,868 reads
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)
3,414 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
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,...
Forums
Absolute and Relative References
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Absolute and Relative References
Moving Beyond the Reboot: Finding the Culprit Behind Memory Pressure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Moving Beyond the Reboot: Finding...
Reserved Words I
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Reserved Words I