What SQL Server Performance & Management Tools Do I Use?
Several times I’ve been asked what tools are in my performance tuning and SQL Server management arsenal, so I decided to just create this blog to list them out...
2019-09-04
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Blog Posts
When were the statistics last updated and how many rows were sampled?
TL;DR; Final query is at the bottom. Every now and again (particularly when someone is having performance problems) I’ll get ... Continue reading
2019-09-04
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Working with SQL Server Data Files
Most people connect to a database, create tables, run update statements, tune queries, add indexes, and never once think about the underlying data and log files that support all...
2019-09-04
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Working with SQL Server Data Files
Most people connect to a database, create tables, run update statements, tune queries, add indexes, and never once think about the underlying data and log files that support all...
2019-09-04
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Working with SQL Server Data Files
Most people connect to a database, create tables, run update statements, tune queries, add indexes, and never once think about the underlying data and log files that support all...
2019-09-04
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Working with SQL Server Data Files
Most people connect to a database, create tables, run update statements, tune queries, add indexes, and never once think about the underlying data and log files that support all...
2019-09-04
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Docker Image Tags are Case Sensitive
A quick post about pulling docker containers (this applies to docker run too)…when specifying the container image, the container image name and tag are case sensitive. We’re not going...
2019-09-03
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Docker Image Tags are Case Sensitive
A quick post about pulling docker containers (this applies to docker run too)…when specifying the container image, the container image name and tag are case sensitive. We’re not going...
2019-09-03
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New Centralized View of SQL Resources in Azure
Yesterday, some new views were made available in the Azure portal that will be helpful to those of us who create or manage Azure SQL resources. First, a new...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series.
I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly 9000...
2019-09-03
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers