The all new, in-person, PASS Data Community Summit is in just a few weeks. Since I’m shortly going to be publishing a 100% rewritten book on query tuning, I...
2022-10-12 (first published: 2022-09-28)
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Snowflake does a great job on documenting the key pair process using bash for Linux environments. That’s great, but what if you need to work within a windows environment...
2022-10-12
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Thank you to everyone who attended my session at the Enertia User Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month! It was a blast meeting everyone, and I can’t wait...
2022-10-12 (first published: 2022-09-30)
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Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards a goal that matters to you. I’ve been working on a coaching certification. I don’t really need it, but...
2022-10-11
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While Query Store has been out for quite some time now, released in 2016, there’s still quite a lot of missing understanding of what Query Store can do for...
2022-10-11
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Everyone has heard of scaling up and scaling out compute. Have you ever heard about a term called scaling across? Before Snowflake, I never. Scaling up and down is...
2022-10-11
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Recently, a person asked about the costs differences in an execution plan, referencing them as if they were performance measures. The key to understanding performance is to check every...
2022-10-10
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Today’s coping tip is to write down three things you can look forward to in the next month. Easy. Visiting my daughter. I’m heading up this weekend to watch...
2022-10-10
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Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Part Three: The Cure
Part Four: Your Environment
Foreword
In the previous posts, we have learned why Scalar Functions (UDFs) are bad for parallelism...
2022-10-10 (first published: 2022-10-02)
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You can find the slides and the demo scripts (.sql files) in my Github repo. You can use the materials as you like, attribution would be nice 🙂
The post...
2022-10-10
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
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This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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