When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated?
When SQL Server receives a new query, the Query Optimizer undertakes the task of identifying a good plan to resolve the...
2010-12-01
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Blog Posts
2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
How time flies - it really has been almost 2 1\2 weeks since the 2010 PASS Summit came to a close!...
2010-11-30
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Book Review: Chasing Daylight
I read Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly after a reference to it in an audio book. It’s the story of...
2010-11-30
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Certificate Based Application Roles
What if I told you that you could sign an assembly that your Windows application uses with a certificate, load...
2010-11-30
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Executing PowerShell in SQL Server Redux
A while ago I blogged about using xp_cmdshell to execute a PowerShell script in SQL Server and return a result...
2010-11-30
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Multiple Mirrors
Up through SQL Server 2008 R2 database mirroring has been limited to a single mirror for each database. While that...
2010-11-30
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NOLOCK – truth
With the NOLOCK hint (or setting the isolation level of the session to READ UNCOMMITTED) you tell SQL Server that...
2010-11-30
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PASS Summit Magic: The Prestige
Ta-DA!!!!
So we started this show with the Pledge, got wowed with the Turn and finally we’ve come to the last...
2010-11-30
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Regressions
Hannah Dustin, Upset about Regression
One of the most important take-aways from David Dewitt’s presentation at the PASS Summit was the...
2010-11-30
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SQL Server Magazine’s Favorite Go-To Websites for SQL Server Solutions
While flipping through this month’s SQL Server Magazine (December 2010), I came across what I thought was a very interesting...
2010-11-30
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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