Snowflake Warehouses

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...

Check Every Metric

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...

Daily Coping 10 Oct 2022

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...

Scary Scalar Functions - Part Four: Your Environment

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...

Session Materials for dataMinds Connect 2022

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...

Viewing errors with extended events

A little while back I came across this post: Identifying failed queries with extended events. It has a script to ... Continue reading

Daily Coping 7 Oct 2022

Today’s coping tip is to be willing to share how you feel and ask for help when needed. This has been something that I never did well. My parents...

Understanding Microsoft Purview Pricing

Ever since its official launch around October 2021, Microsoft Purview has been one of the more popular services in Azure, with a steady stream of new features expanding the...

Why I tweet about work and personal topics from the same account

Over the last few years, I’ve had a few people ask me why I don’t create two Twitter accounts so I can separate work and personal things. I choose...

Daily Coping 6 Oct 2022

Today’s coping tip is to remind yourself that you are enough just as you are. This is interesting, as I’m not satisfied with who I am today. I’m not...