Goal Progress for Sep 2022

I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. Well, clearly I’ve gotten away from my goals. No updates...

Query Tuning At PASS Data Community Summit

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...

Snowflake Key Pair Authentication

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...

Storytelling with Data – Enertia User Conference 2022

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...

Daily Coping 11 Oct 2022

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...

Query Store at PASS Data Community Summit

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...

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...