Thank You Allen!
I know I can say that I’m a friend of Allen White without getting into trouble. Allen and I have a shared a lot of things over the years...
2022-07-12
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Grant Fritchey
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Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: xml_deadlock_report_filtered
One of my favorite little bits of information about Extended Events is the fact that everyone running a full instance of SQL Server has deadlock information available to them,...
2022-07-11
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Goodbye to Good Morning!
For two years and three months, since April 2020, I’ve posted a tweet saying “Good Morning!” on every workday. I think I missed one. I was late for a...
2022-07-07
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Thank You Kevin!
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb to call Kevin Kline a friend. I’m extremely humbled and honored that I can say that. Kevin is...
2022-07-06
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Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: Unique Constraint Violations
Most of the time when I talk about or demo Extended Events, I spend more time talking about query tuning (I have a problem). However, there are tons of...
2022-07-05
137 reads
2022 State of PostgreSQL Survey
Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
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PostgreSQL and Azure Data Studio
As I’ve been working more with PostgreSQL, I’ve found that I’m basically pretty happy just issuing SQL commands to get work done. However, it’s handy to have an actual...
2022-06-06
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Extended Events in AWS RDS
For the longest time, we didn’t have one of the most useful tools for monitoring SQL Server behavior, but I just found out that, indeed, you can use Extended...
2022-05-11 (first published: 2022-05-02)
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Query Tuning and Easy Solutions
TLDR: There ain’t one. I was privileged last week to be able to present a couple of sessions at the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (great event, I...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Two Years of “Good Morning!”
Two years ago at the start of the pandemic, I wasn’t feeling great about things. I saw that quite a few others weren’t all that thrilled about how things...
2022-04-04
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Blogs
SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget
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The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...
CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger
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We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it...
Don’t Treat Your Data Catalog Like a Data Museum
Introduction Treating your data catalog like a “data museum”—a static collection where information quietly...
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