A Moment For Reflection…
While this is a personal blog, I try to keep it focused on either technical topics or personal development and...
2016-05-25
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Grant Fritchey
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On the Buckeye Blitz!
In just a few weeks I’ll be doing the Buckeye Blitz. That is, a tour of user groups in Ohio...
2016-05-24
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PASS Board 2016: Update #3
I didn’t post an update last month, but I did do something more important: I elicited your feedback on a question...
2016-05-23
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Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans
I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...
2016-05-23 (first published: 2016-05-16)
2,710 reads
Use The Correct Data Type
Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...
2016-05-18 (first published: 2016-05-12)
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Implicit Conversion and Performance
Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...
2016-05-03
591 reads
How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit
August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...
2016-05-02
970 reads
Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
1,833 reads
Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
520 reads
Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
482 reads
Blogs
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
By Kevin3NF
How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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