SQL in the City Sydney in Two Weeks
It’s two weeks to our next SQL in the City Summit, this time in Sydney. I’m excited to be going back, though it’s a quick trip for me. Likely...
2019-09-13
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Blog Posts
How I Troubleshoot SQL Server Execution Plans
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Today I’m concluding my series on SQL Server execution plans by sharing the specific steps I take when troubleshooting a slow performing query....
2019-09-12 (first published: 2019-08-27)
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Local Database CI Builds with Jenkins in a Container
In two previous posts, I’ve showed how to configure Jenkins in a container as well as how to add the SQL Change Automation plugin. This post looks at an...
2019-09-12 (first published: 2019-08-26)
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MSDB Size growing
msdb is growing due to queue. their is a great blog to help to reduce this How to reduce MSDB size from 42Gb to 200Mb query to get object...
2019-09-12
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NO RDPing!!! dbatools to the Rescue
So you hear this spread across the Twitterverse and Blogosphere. You should not RDP your SQL Servers to do administrative work. My nature has always been to troubleshoot issues...
2019-09-12
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Speaking Engagements End 2019
Currently I have two conferences in the pipeline. The first is our local DataMinds Connect, the biggest Microsoft data platform conference of the BeNeLux. I’ll be giving a session...
2019-09-12
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Speaking Engagements End 2019
Currently I have two conferences in the pipeline. The first is our local DataMinds Connect, the biggest Microsoft data platform conference of the BeNeLux. I’ll be giving a session...
2019-09-12
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SQL Security Principals and Permissions 101 at September '19 BRSSUG
Great attendance and great meeting last night for the September '19 BRSSUG meeting, great to see lots of new faces at the meeting following our successful SQLSaturday event in...
2019-09-12
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Training – Learning Data Science
You should never stop learning, especially within the IT industry. There are many fields to move into nowadays within the data space, you still have your classic / cloud...
2019-09-12
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Are My SQL Server Indexes Being Used?
Indexes can be incredibly beneficial to your database performance; however, they do come with a cost—indexes both consume storage space and affect insert performance. Therefore, it is important as...
2019-09-11 (first published: 2019-08-28)
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Blogs
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers