The power of the baseline
There is one thing we all have in common, and a lot of us probably don’t even realize it, baselines!
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2014-03-27 (first published: 2014-03-21)
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Blog Posts
5 Top Features Your Company Can Use in SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition
In a few days SQL Server 2014 will be made available, we’re not all lucky enough to be running Enterprise...
2014-03-26
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Collation: Expression
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading. As I read I started...
2014-03-26
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Conditional Coloured Bar Charts in Excel with Upper and Lower Targets
I was just trying to gauge my BI knowledge level the other day and decided to chart it for visibility....
2014-03-26
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Error 701 - Insufficient System Memory - Now what?
This story begins, as so many often do, with a few key elements:1) A client who experienced a problem on...
2014-03-26 (first published: 2014-03-20)
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Getting an INDEX SEEK to Speed up LIKE “%string%” Searches
In today’s blog I will attempt to challenge the popularly held notion that LIKE “%string%” wildcard searches must be slow...
2014-03-26
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Speaking at OPASS – April 2014
If my blog history is correct the last time I presented at oPASS was January 2012 – that seems like a...
2014-03-26
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SQL Saturday Oklahoma City precon: Becoming an Enterprise DBA
We’ll be at OKC this summer for their SQL Saturday on August 23, and we’re presenting our precon “Becoming an...
2014-03-26
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SQL Scripts Manager
We have Down Tools Week multiple times per year at Red Gate. This allows various employees to spend a week...
2014-03-26
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The problem with PASS Summit abstracts (and submissions and selection and notification and…)
The problem with the PASS Summit session submissions process is that people don’t know why they’re rejected. So say we...
2014-03-26 (first published: 2014-03-19)
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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