Query tuning 101: Non-trusted Foreign Keys
Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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Blog Posts
Sequence – Long awaited feature
As per BOL (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878058(v=sql.110).aspx) : A sequence is a user-defined schema-bound object that generates a sequence of numeric values according to...
2017-01-05
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Announcing SQL Saturday Chicago Precon Training Session
Heraflux is proud to announce that I am teaching a preconference training session at this year’s upcoming SQL Saturday in Chicago....
2017-01-04
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Comparing plan consistency and query performance using the Query Store Replay script
The 1.2 version of the Query Store Replay script a number of new features are added that return information of...
2017-01-04 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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Create quick queries quickly with SSAS in Azure
In a perfect world a data warehouse would always return all queries very quickly, no matter what the size or...
2017-01-04
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Finding Automatic Soft-NUMA
If you already know about Automatic Soft-NUMA in SQL Server 2016, then you probably already read the blog post SQL...
2017-01-04 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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Quick Prompt Tips–Custom Procedure Templates
One of the things that I often do is create stored procedures. The syntax for doing so is simple, but...
2017-01-04
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When was SQL Server installed?
In this blog post. Let us learn about how to retrieve date and time when the SQL Server was installed. To retrieve...
2017-01-04
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Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch
I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE...
2017-01-03
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Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about that, there were months where I barely managed to...
2017-01-03
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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