Query the Buffer Pool
DBAs are known for asking for more memory, but often can’t say what’s in memory. While I agree that many...
2016-01-07 (first published: 2016-01-04)
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DBAs are known for asking for more memory, but often can’t say what’s in memory. While I agree that many...
2016-01-07 (first published: 2016-01-04)
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I found a bug where I’m seeing TempDB use more memory than it should on multiple versions of SQL Server, especially on servers set up with common best practices. There’s a...
2016-01-05
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If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice,...
2016-01-04 (first published: 2015-12-23)
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SQL Server's buffer pool is a majority of your memory, but most DBAs can't tell you what's in it.
2016-01-04
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What do I care about when I’m playing with indexes? That’s easy. I want as few indexes as possible efficiently referenced...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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Blogging and presenting have changed me for the better, and in ways I didn’t see coming. However, I know I wouldn’t...
2015-12-28
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Blogging and presenting have changed me for the better, and in ways I didn’t see coming. However, I know I wouldn’t have had them if it wasn’t for three things. Getting...
2015-12-28
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Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a...
2015-12-24
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Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a drunken elf can guide Santa to houses. Since...
2015-12-24
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Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the...
2015-12-24
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SELECT * feels convenient, but in SQL Server it bloats I/O, burns network bandwidth,...
By Kevin3NF
In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve gathered info and done the...
By Steve Jones
At SQL Saturday Boston 2025, I gave a presentation on local LLMs and there...
Hi we run 2019 standard. Our warehouse's ssis based etl is klunky but so...
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The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?
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