What Queries are Causing My Waits?
In my last blog post, I showed you how I go about baselining wait statistics. Typically my next step once...
2013-10-15 (first published: 2013-10-10)
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Blog Posts
Finding Top Offenders From Cache
When I start a SQL Server Performance Root Cause Analysis I like to find the top waits and then find...
2013-10-14
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #53
Monday morning and it’s time for weekly round-up. If you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet...
2013-10-14
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My PASS Summit Schedule this Week
Well, it is here folks. The PASSSummit 2013. If you have never been to a PASS Summit, please look in...
2013-10-14
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Networking Dinner at the 2013 PASS Summit–Tonight!
Tonight for the fourth year Steve Jones and I are hosting an informal networking dinner. We’ll be at Buffalo Wild...
2013-10-14
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #1
Yesterday we drove up from Charleston where I had attended SQLSaturday #227. It’s not a bad drive, about three hours....
2013-10-14
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SQL Server – Understanding Allocation Units – In Row Data, LOB Data & Row Overflow Data
Before we get started on this topic, here is a quick fact..in SQL Server 2000, there used to be hard...
2013-10-14
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SSIS Tips and Tricks Q&A
Thank you to everyone who attended my webinar on SSIS Tips and Tricks on October 3, 2013. The link to...
2013-10-14 (first published: 2013-10-07)
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Top 11 Qualities of a DataWarehouse Implementer
Top 11th Quality: Curious to explore different designs There are many ways to achieve the same thing. Before actually getting...
2013-10-14
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Two Weeks to SQL Intersection
If you haven’t made it to a conference this year, you’ve still got a great one to think about: SQL...
2013-10-14
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Forums
advice on ssrs version control
Hi we're a bit behind on versioning ssrs. I think we have over 1600...
Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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