Snowflake Editions
You have decided that snowflake is the technology you want to use to build your next gen data platform, you have decided your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) then...
2022-07-13
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Blog Posts
Top 5 SQL Server VM Performance Tuning Tips – Webinar Jul 21
You’re invited! I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a session on the top five SQL Server virtual machine performance tuning tips with our friends at Sanity Solutions on July 21st...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-06-25)
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T-SQL Tuesday #152 – It Depends – Manager’s Access
Deb Melkin (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and is letting us rant. Who doesn’t like to rant about databases and the famous “it depends”. She...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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Daily Coping 12 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-12
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SQL Server Partitioning for Performance
Often enough I get questions regarding partitioning to try to help alleviate performance issues with very large tables. A common misconception is that due to the table being large,...
2022-07-12
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Thank You Allen!
I know I can say that I’m a friend of Allen White without getting into trouble. Allen and I have a shared a lot of things over the years...
2022-07-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #152–It Depends
A great invitation this month from Deborah Melkin. I thought this was very apt, as I use this phrase often. Many of us do. This was a tougher post...
2022-07-12
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T-SQL Tuesday 152: An ORM Will Not Save You From Yourself
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Deborah Melkin (blog | twitter) asks us for a database-related rant.
I...
2022-07-12
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Daily Coping 11 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-11
18 reads
Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: xml_deadlock_report_filtered
One of my favorite little bits of information about Extended Events is the fact that everyone running a full instance of SQL Server has deadlock information available to them,...
2022-07-11
37 reads
Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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