Daily Coping 8 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-08
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Blog Posts
Goal Progress–Wrapping up 2020
This is the final look at my goals for 2020 and how I did. I am writing this a few days after the end of the year, and examining...
2021-01-08
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Powerful Monitoring for Your Linked Servers with XEvents
Linked Servers can certainly provide an enigma to your finely tuned Database environment. In this article, I share how to decrypt that enigma via XEvents.
The post Powerful Monitoring...
2021-01-08 (first published: 2021-01-02)
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Saving PASS Pro Videos
PASS will close down their websites on 15 Jan 2021. That’s just a couple weeks away, and if you’re someone that paid for a year of PASS Pro access,...
2021-01-08 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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Daily Coping 7 Jan 2021
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...
2021-01-07
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Experiments With Go Arrays and Slices
Simplicity Over Syntactic Sugar
As I’ve been learning Go, I’ve grown to learn that many decisions to simplify the language have removed many features that provide more succinct expressions in...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-30)
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Game changer settings # MAXDOP and Cost threshold for parallelism
I got a performance tuning assignment for an esteemed customer in the Financial Services domain. I went through the wait stats of SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2021-01-02)
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SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-01-07
43 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-01-07
15 reads
SQLpassion Online Training about Statistics & Plan Caching
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-01-07
12 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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