Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps

I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.

I...

SQL Clone and a Little Competition

Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...

Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism

In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...

SQL Clone

Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...

I Don’t Understand

I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...

Random Blog Post Challenge

OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...

Confusion of An Old Technologist

As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...

Estimated Costs of All Queries

One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...

Approaching Politics in IT

The news cycle seems to be dominated by discussion of politics. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, the talk of politics is inescapable and is probably going to lead to you being displeased with your fellow man. Luckily, we work in IT, so we can avoid politics. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Politics goes way beyond […]

Does Query Store Pre-Allocate Space

I love the questions I get while I’m presenting because they force me to think and learn. The question in...