Experts Perspective Webcast: Wait Watchers – Gain Performance Increases Fast
Following in the footsteps of such greats community leaders as Brent Ozar and Kevin Kline I have the opportunity, nay...
2014-08-12
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Richard Douglas
- Interests: Usual stuff: family, SQL Server, shiny things.
PASS DBA VC Session 25th June
It’s always an honour to be able to speak at an event, but events can be expensive to attend and...
2014-06-24
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Data loss in clustered index occurs when you run online build index in SQL Server 2012
Scared? Don’t worry, there is a workaround and a hotfix. More on that in a moment.
This morning I checked my...
2014-06-12 (first published: 2014-06-10)
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Spring may be long gone but you still need to clean up MSDB
System databases are often neglected, part of this is due to Microsoft’s message of SQL Server will run and look...
2014-06-12
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Two things you probably shouldn’t say in an interview
If you look online you can find thousands of pages of advice on interviews as well as people asking for...
2014-05-22
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Monthly Reflections – April 2014
April was quite a busy month and so apart from the last reflections post and TSQL Tuesday entry Why So Serious...
2014-05-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #53 Why So Serious
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday which is now at a staggering number 53, can it really have been going that long?...
2014-04-08
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Monthly Reflections – March 2014
After a bit of an enforced sabbatical from blogging (short but boring story), I was interested to see how my...
2014-04-04
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Grant View Server State
There are lots of Dynamic Management Objects (DMO’s, more commonly referred to generically as DMV’s) that require extra permissions. Without...
2014-04-02 (first published: 2014-03-25)
95,720 reads
Last Day in the UK
The driver behind the move
After over two and a half years at my current employers I am afraid to say...
2014-04-01
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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Hyperscale Replicas IV
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The SQL Server Date Magic: When CAST and CONVERT Keep Your Index Seek
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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