TSQL Tuesday #150 – My first technical job
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Tracy Boggiano
Setting Up SQL Audit for STIG Compliance
Recently I spent months of my lift working on STIG and CIS compliance at my job and one of those tasks was setting up SQL Audit for STIG. Now,...
2022-04-29 (first published: 2022-04-18)
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Using dbachecks for CIS Security Checks
Well back at the end of 2019 I finished writing most of the checks related to the CIS Center for Internet Security requirements. I have yet to write a...
2022-02-02 (first published: 2022-01-21)
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Question of the Day
Query Plan Regressions --
For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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