Why Does Everyone Have More Friends Than You?
No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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Matthew McGiffen
- Twitter: @MattMcGiffen
- Website: https://matthewmcgiffen.com/
Check Query Progress with Live Query Stats
This is something I touched on back in 2017 a little after the Live Query Statistics feature was introduced with SQL 2016, but I was using the functionality this...
2019-09-26 (first published: 2019-09-18)
1,927 reads
SQL Server Wishlist
This month for T-SQL Tuesday Kevin Chant asks us what our fantasy SQL feature would be. https://www.kevinrchant.com/2019/09/03/t-sql-tuesday-118-your-fantasy-sql-feature/ I think it’s appropriate to give a shout-out to Microsoft at this...
2019-09-11
86 reads
Query Store stores dates as UTC
One of the powerful aspects of Query Store is the ability to directly query the DMVs for details of historical executions and performance. A key view for this is...
2019-09-04 (first published: 2019-08-21)
312 reads
The 99 Flavours of SQL Server are all Vanilla
There are so many options for running SQL Server now. It can feel a little intimidating. You’ve spent years gaining experience with SQL running on Windows Server. On bare...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
561 reads
Find queries with high memory grants – using Query Store
I had a server that looked like it had been suffering from memory contention. I wanted to see what queries were being run that had high memory requirements. The...
2019-08-14 (first published: 2019-07-31)
788 reads
Adding a Column with a Default Constraint
Last week a question came up about adding a column to a table, and giving that column a default constraint. Would that default value be assigned to all existing...
2019-07-24 (first published: 2019-07-16)
470 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #114 Puzzle Party – Roundup
Here’s my round-up for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. Thanks to everyone who contributed last week. It was great reading your posts and seeing the different ways you interpreted the...
2019-05-21
101 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #114 – Puzzle Party
A few years back I started running regular SQL workshops in my workplace. Teaching beginners the basics of querying databases with SQL, as well as more advanced topics for...
2019-05-07
119 reads
“SSPI handshake failed” \ “The login is from an untrusted domain” errors
I’ve recently encountered an issue that was difficult to resolve and I didn’t find the particular cause that was troubling...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-02-12)
2,960 reads
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Detecting Deadlocks
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