Goodbye to Good Morning!
For two years and three months, since April 2020, I’ve posted a tweet saying “Good Morning!” on every workday. I think I missed one. I was late for a...
2022-07-07
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 6 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...
2022-07-06
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Honored to be a Microsoft MVP Again
I was renewed this week as a Microsoft MVP. This is my 15th award in a row and each year this happens it is an honor to be recognized...
2022-07-06
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Log in to Power BI Desktop as an External (B2B) User
I noticed Adam Saxton post a tip on the Guy in a Cube YouTube channel about publishing reports from Power BI Desktop for external users. According to Microsoft Docs...
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-06-22)
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Snowflake Data Cloud
Time to shift gears away from the world of relational databases whether that is in the cloud, on-prem, Linux-based, containers or even sitting within Kubernetes. Everyone has heard of...
2022-07-06
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SQL Homework – July 2022 – Update your resume.
Resumes have been on my mind a lot recently. I’ve been thinking that I wish I’d kept mine up to ... Continue reading
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-07-05)
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SQLServerCarpenter Tools
Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed several tools that I’ve been using during my Performance Tuning and other related assignments. I thought to share it with the...
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-07-04)
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Thank You Kevin!
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb to call Kevin Kline a friend. I’m extremely humbled and honored that I can say that. Kevin is...
2022-07-06
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usp_SQLServerCarpenter_Tools_Get_Costliest_Queries
This procedure can get you the list of queries being executed frequently and for duration greater/less than a particular time. You may also find it very useful if you...
2022-07-06
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usp_SQLServerCarpenter_Tools_Get_Objects_Performing_Committed_Read
This procedure will get all the objects performing committed reads. It will fetch all the objects (Procedures, Functions, Triggers, View etc.) that doesn't uses the NOLOCK and SET ISOLATION...
2022-07-06
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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