A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops
I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...
2011-06-21
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Blog Posts
Are all updates split into delete-insert?
This should be another quick one.
Earlier I saw a forum post where someone asserted that SQL always executes an update...
2011-06-21
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Data Compression in SQL Server
Do you know much about data compression? It seems that quite a few people I meet don’t really understand how...
2011-06-21
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Index Rebuild progress v2
I have actually written about this subject earlier on my Danish blog (http://www.performanceduo.com/post/Index-Rebuild-progress.aspx), but last week when working on a...
2011-06-21
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New York SQL Events - Upcoming Triple Play......
If you're in a New York State of Mind (song by Billy Joel), then you'll like the triple play of...
2011-06-21
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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Tomorrow
Tomorrow is time for part two of my presentations this month on Extended Events for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter. ...
2011-06-21
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PASSMN Meeting Later Today
Well folks, we’re already to the third Tuesday of June. Where’s the summer going to? That means that this afternoon...
2011-06-21
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Replaying workloads with the RML Utilities
In today's weblog posting I want to talk about replaying SQL Server workloads with
the RML Utilities. RML Utilities stands for...
2011-06-21
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Speaking At The 2011 PASS Summit
The official notices went out to speakers last week and I am privileged to have the opportunity to present two...
2011-06-21
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Code Snippet for an SSIS DataFlow Performance Wiretap
I was recently tweaking a few Data Flows, and settled on a very small, but very useful script to help record execution timing inside the flow.
Decomposition Is Time...
2011-06-20
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Forums
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Five Intelligent Query Processing Features in SQL Server 2022 That Quietly Tune Your Workload
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Checking the Error Log I
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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