My new favourite traceflag
As we are all aware, there are a number of traceflags. Some documented, some semi-documented and some completely undocumented. Here...
2012-12-06
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Blog Posts
Querying Performance Counters in SQL Server
In a previous post, there was a comparison between sysperfinfo and sys.dm_os_performance_counters which included the use of a simple query. ...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-27)
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SQL Saturday 194 - Exeter
Many kudos goes to Jonathan and Annette Allen and the others on the team for confirming SQL Saturday 194 in...
2012-12-06
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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – November 2012 update
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a new update:
VS 2010: new version 10.3.21101.1, September version: 10.3.20905.0, initial version: 10.3.20225.0
VS 2012: new...
2012-12-06
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Tables without a Primary Key
As well as creating the script for yesterday’s post on finding Tables without a Clustered Index I tweaked the script...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-30)
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12 Steps to Workload Tuning – Winter 2012 Performance Palooza!
[UPDATE] Video recording from PASS Virtual Performance Chapter’s Winter 2012 Performance Palooza can be found here.
I am a huge fan...
2012-12-05
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Blog Redesigned
Since it’s been a while since I made any real changes to the design of this blog, it was time...
2012-12-05
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Experimenting with Social Media
After multiple talks with Jason Strate (blog|twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog|twitter) about how they are working on automating more of...
2012-12-05
1,133 reads
how to get ahead
Many people have ideas as to how to do well in life. Of course, many people do not even agree...
2012-12-05
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LivingForSQLServer celebrates 2nd year anniversary today
It's been 2 years since I wrote my first blog post on SQLServerCentral ("What happens when a query is submitted").
No...
2012-12-05
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Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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