Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
5,307 reads
Kendal Van Dyke
SQLRally Logo Contest - Fame & Fortune Up For Grabs!
Now that the PASS SQLRally (formerly known as the spring event) has a name it's time to start building a...
2010-07-22
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Getting Started In Blogging And Technical Speaking - At The 2010 PASS Summit
In case you missed it the Program Session (60 min. long) selections are now available on the 2010 PASS Summit...
2010-07-21
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Introducing The PASS SQLRally
If you're a PASS member you may have noticed in this morning's Community Connector that the 2011 spring event I...
2010-07-14
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In The Spotlight!
I received an unexpected but certainly not unwelcome email last night letting me know that I've been selected to present...
2010-06-23
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PASS 2011 Spring Event In Orlando
In March of this year the PASS Board of Directors began kicking around the idea of holding some kind of...
2010-06-21
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Presenting At OPASS June 15
On Tuesday, June 15, I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room at the Orlando SQL Server...
2010-06-10
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PASS Summit 2010 Abstract Submissions
I submitted three abstracts for the 2010 PASS Summit this year - two "normal" (75 minute) and one spotlight (90 minute)...
2010-06-08
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"Troubleshooting Transaction Replication" Published In SQL Server Magazine
I've been published! My article Troubleshooting Transactional Replicationis featured in the June 2010 issue of SQL Server Magazine (subscription required...
2010-05-28
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STS-132 NASA Tweetup or "I've Won A Golden Ticket!"
Note: This is a very non-SQL Server related post. If you don't want to read something personal about me feel...
2010-05-11
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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