SQL Server Quickie #23 – Plan Cache Pollution
Today I have uploaded the 23th SQL Server Quickie to YouTube. This time I’m talking about Plan Cache Pollution in...
2015-04-07
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Blog Posts
SSMS regular expressions: format text into a block
Sean’s RegEx for DBAs class must be finally sinking in for me. Today I was able to figure out a...
2015-04-07
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SSRS report footer is NOT lost in Excel
With all the recent changes and updates within the Microsoft PowerBI universe, SSRS core technology gets less and less attention....
2015-04-07 (first published: 2015-03-31)
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Backups – They Are Needed, Who Knew?
Backups are essential for a successful business model. That statement may or may spark some topics for debate, but at...
2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR...
2015-04-06
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Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR in one! Even with AGs, still integral to your...
2015-04-06
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Does the New Cardinality Estimator Reduce Bad Parameter Sniffing
No. Next question.
Although, that answer can be slightly, ever so slightly, nuanced…
Parameter sniffing is a good thing. But, like a...
2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-30)
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction
In-Memory OLTP is getting a lot of (rightly deserved imho) hype at the moment. But what does it entail exactly?...
2015-04-06
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MVP Showcase Portugal 2015
É com uma enorme felicidade e orgulho que gostava de partilhar a notícia sobre a criação de um evento Português...
2015-04-06
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Speaking at Charlotte BI Group Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, I’ll be speaking at the Charlotte BI user group. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM.
Here’s...
2015-04-06
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Blogs
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....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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