Interview questions for SQL Server Performance Tuning Specialists
If you are the regular reader of my blog posts, you could easily judge in which topics i spend much time these days.
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2012-11-29
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Blog Posts
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysremotelogins
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-29
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysservers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-29
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Reasons not to upgrade to SQL Server 2012
As exciting as SQL Server 2012 is, with its multitude of new features, it’s not always possible to upgrade right...
2012-11-29
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Tables without a Clustered Index
Yesterday while adding some new logic to an existing process I noticed an unacceptable level of performance degradation with the...
2012-11-29
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When row estimation goes wrong
Whilst working at a client site, I hit upon one of those issues that you are not sure if that...
2012-11-29 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.1: Data In, Data Out
In the first of a series of amateur tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), I promised to pull off...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that...
2012-11-28
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HDInsight: First Pass
I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...
2012-11-28
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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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