SQL Saturday Boston: I’m Speaking!
It feels like SQL Saturday Albany just wrapped up, but I have another announcement to make. I am proud to announce that I have been selected to speak at...
2019-08-13
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Execution Plan Operators
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
When examining...
2019-08-13
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SQL Server Execution Plan Operators
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
When examining...
2019-08-13
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When Have You Used MOT Tables? T-SQL Tuesday #117
Steve Jones (b/t) is our host for T-SQL Tuesday and in case you didn’t know has taken over running T-SQL ... Continue reading
2019-08-13
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Announcing a New Book: Query Store for SQL Server 2019
I’m pleased as punch to be able to share with you the fact that I helped Tracy Boggiano write a whole new book on Query Store. It will be...
2019-08-12
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Azure SQL Database Script for Size
Sometimes you may not want to flip over to the Azure portal to grab the database size, such as the used space below. So here is a handy script...
2019-08-12
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Execution Plans: Statistics
Watch this week’s Statistics video on YouTube. Last week we looked at what execution plans are and how you can view them. This week I want to discuss what data...
2019-08-12 (first published: 2019-07-30)
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Information Measurement with SQL Server Part 4.6: The Jaccard Distance and Its Relatives
By Steve Bolton …………Over the course of this inexpert exploration of the distance measures used for such data mining applications as clustering, we’ve gradually introduced a system of classification...
2019-08-12 (first published: 2019-07-29)
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sp_RestoreScript 1.5 Release
We’ve released sp_RestoreScript 1.5. This is only a minor release but adds the type of the backup file to the output. You can grab the latest version from our...
2019-08-12
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Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?
Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?MARCH 19, 2015
This week, Microsoft introduced an update to Azure SQL...
2019-08-09 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
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...
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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
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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