Speaker of the Month, October 2013
This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...
2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gfritchey.bsky.social
Azure Account and Spending Limits
If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...
2013-10-08
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An Experiment Concludes
That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...
2013-09-30
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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand
We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...
2013-09-27
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PASS Votes
I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...
2013-09-26
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AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure
While I have production databases in Azure, I can’t exactly experiment with them at will. Further, while they mostly have...
2013-09-25
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Premium Database on Azure
One of the things that can make Windows Azure SQL Databases (WASD) attractive is the fact that they run inside...
2013-09-24
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Why the Lazy Spool Is Bad
First thing, there are no bad operators, just bad parents, uh, I mean query writers, or database designers, or ORM...
2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-16)
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PASS Votes and So Should You
To put it bluntly, you need to go cast a vote for Allen Kinsel for the PASS Board.
In his own...
2013-09-23
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Finding Ad Hoc Queries with Query Hash
I was presenting a session on how to read execution plans when I received a question: Do you have a...
2013-09-20 (first published: 2013-09-18)
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Blogs
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
Forums
SQL Server audit with windows ad group
I am trying to create a filter on a SQL Server audit to capture...
Deadlock graph anomaly
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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