In-Memory OLTP & Deadlocking – my SQLBits sessions
After speaking at the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen earlier this week, my next stop was at the SQLBits conference in...
2015-03-07
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Blog Posts
DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”
Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Friday Followup For March 6, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-03-06
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Fun-fun-fun in the London sun (and Cardiff, and Exeter!)
We’re in London right now for SQLBits, which has been ABSOLUTELY LOVELY so far. If you happen to’ve seen our...
2015-03-06
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SQLRally and SQLBits Slides and Demos
It’s been a great a busy week.
On Wednesday, I presented my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” at SQLRally...
2015-03-06
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T-SQL :- How to Search String in all Stored Procedures across All User Defined Databases
There are many different ways to accomplish this tasks.
Download Link https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/T-SQL-How-to-Search-String-a1704fc6
The below examples uses undocumented sp’s to loop through all the...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Identifying Blocking via Extended Events
There are a number of ways that you can identify blocking that is occurring in your SQL instance. You can...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 3: Writing an Abstract
So you’ve come up with a great idea for a session and now you have to translate that idea into...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Data compression
This post examines the compression of a database named Bankware (BW) at a client site. The database size was 300+...
2015-03-04
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Data compression
This post examines the compression of a database named Bankware (BW) at a client site. The database size was about...
2015-03-04
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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