Corrupt Temporary Statistics in SQL Server 2014 Readable Replica
Earlier this week, the Database Strategy Team at my company was contacted about queries that were failing on one specific...
2015-12-10
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DBA Myths: Database file extentions
Every now and again I hear or read that the only file extensions for a SQL Server database are mdf,...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-02)
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Performance Tuning with sp_BlitzIndex
Just a small blog post about how I used sp_BlitzIndex for the first and how awesome that was. sp_BlitzIndex is one...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-07)
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When I present at any given event, I generally assume that the people attending have heard of the event that...
2015-12-10
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SQL F.A.D. – Trace flag 834 and columnstore indexes - Syndication – WaterOx Consulting
Trace flags can be good Are special codes we, the DBA, can use to change the way the SQL Server...
2015-12-10
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SQL Server – Trace flag changes in Dynamic data masking in SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0
Hi friends, In new CTP version SQL server 2016 which is 3.0, I was trying to explore the new masking...
2015-12-10
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SQLSaturday Message Templates – Copy From Other Events
For those of you with access to the SQLSaturday admin site (used by event leaders) one of the things you...
2015-12-10
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The Hour of Code 2015
This year I was interested to see that they did the Hour of Code in the elementary school my daughter...
2015-12-10
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T-SQL Clippy
I love writing c# code using visual studio and resharper, it is a really nice experience and resharper does a...
2015-12-10
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T-SQL Clippy
I love writing c# code using visual studio and resharper, it is a really nice experience and resharper does a...
2015-12-10
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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