High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns
What exactly does this mean? We’ve heard of “code patterns” in other programming languages, but what does it mean to...
2015-06-04 (first published: 2015-05-27)
9,327 reads
Blog Posts
SQL Server – How to Calculate Length and Size of any field in a SQL Table
Recently I came across a situation where queries are loading extremely slow from a table. After careful analysis we found...
2015-06-04
706 reads
SQLSaturday #408 Houston
I have been selected again to speak in Houston (Saturday, June 13th) for a SQLSaturday event and look forward to...
2015-06-04
535 reads
Sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 7
Hi friends, in last previous blogs we created database mail profile and database mail account. In this blog we will...
2015-06-04
492 reads
Blacklist a Set of IPs - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe talked about whitelisting IPs before, but what about the opposite, blacklisting...
The post Blacklist a Set of...
2015-06-03
445 reads
Clean up all (most) of the orphans on an instance
Recently we have been doing a number of instance moves as part of a large upgrade project. And as anyone...
2015-06-03
1,682 reads
Full Domain Trust and Natively Compiled Stored Procedures – In Memory OLTP
Recently one of my developers brought this specific problem to my attention. He was trying to create a natively compiled stored...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-26)
1,372 reads
Notes From The May 2015 oPASS Meeting
Really late posting these, forgot to put on my task list!
About 20 attendeesLots of good questions, and I saw quite...
2015-06-03
390 reads
SQL Server 2016 features to look for -1
At this year’s inaugural Ignite Conference in held in Chicago Microsoft announced that the next release of SQL Server, previously...
2015-06-03
1,153 reads
VM Memory Counters Lie for SQL Server VMs
A few weeks ago, while at the incredible SQL Saturday Madison, I had a great discussion with a few of the...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-22)
2,409 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers