PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Trimming Indexes, Getting Your Database in Shape
Hello Dear Reader! Tomorrow at 12 noon eastern I’ll be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual chapter, click here to...
2012-10-23
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SQLBalls
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DBA Study Guide
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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...
2012-10-18
2,428 reads
SQL Saturday 151 Interview: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader SQL Saturday 151 is just around the corner. If you haven't registerd there is still time to...
2012-09-27
1,722 reads
Please VOTE for Me: PASS Summit 2012 Lightening Talks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndydoty/2087680308/Hello Dear Reader the PASS Summit is approaching and with that the program committee sent out a request for Lightening...
2012-08-20
1,054 reads
Database Corruption, Transparent Data Encryption, and Trace Flag 5004
This one comes straight from the email bag. A friend recently had a problem, they were placing TDE on a...
2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)
5,725 reads
SQL Saturday 151 BI Pre-con: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader, SQL Saturday 151 Orlando is picking up steam. The Pre-Con’s have been named and they are fantastic. ...
2012-08-16
743 reads
Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard
Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...
2012-08-14
1,085 reads
How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)
I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...
2012-08-08
7,998 reads
Book Review: On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
I just finished this book. Literally. Sitting on an airplane in route from Orlando to Charlotte NC. I got up...
2012-08-07
1,010 reads
How to Find Bad Page Splits
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I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups. Earlier this week I had...
2012-08-06
4,245 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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