Query Store Usage and Adaptive Plan Tuning Usage
Recently, there are have been a few articles about the lack of adoption of Query Store. Note the following:
Brent Ozar...
2018-06-28 (first published: 2018-06-17)
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Blog Posts
Replication Max Text Length
Ever seen the below error? Until this week I hadn’t. So, I figured I’d take a little time and introduce...
2018-06-28 (first published: 2018-06-20)
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Tools to connect to a SQL database
Today I'm getting back to basics, whether you are new or veteran with the database engine you need a tool to get into, write queries, do some monitoring, tuning,...
2018-06-28
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Use SSMS with a Different Windows Account – Back to Basics
Runas should be a very common tool in the toolbox of all IT professionals - not just Data Professionals. Learning how to test different accounts is essential to being...
2018-06-28
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File Growth Rate – The GUI Lies
If you are like me, you use the SSMS GUI for various things. Though, I tend to use scripts for...
2018-06-27 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal
As a remote DBA I often have to log in to client systems for a fixed amount of time and...
2018-06-27 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Tools to connect to a SQL database
Today I'm getting back to basics, whether you are new or veteran with the database engine you need a tool...
2018-06-27
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Update your production servers and stop making excuses about it
Folks, we all like to make sure we’re doing our level best to make things work smoothly. So why am...
2018-06-27
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Azure SQL DB – Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON.
Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get...
2018-06-26 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Filtering Tables, Procedures, And Other Objects In SSMS
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While the text of this post contains good information on SSMS object filters, I highly recommend watching this week's video on YouTube - I...
2018-06-26
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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