There are many options available for improving the performance of a query: indexes, statistics, configuration settings, etc… However, not all environments allow you to use those features (eg. vendor...
2019-04-25 (first published: 2019-04-16)
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tl;dr; Yes, but. It’s generally considered more secure to have your SQL Server instance set to Windows Authentication and not ... Continue reading
2019-04-24 (first published: 2019-04-11)
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This is my second interview! This time with Andre who is a cat lover and great speaker! Here you can find the interview!
2019-04-24
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I am very excited to announce I will be delivering a pre-conference session on SQL Server Performance Tuning on November 5th at PASS Summit 2019. If you have ever...
2019-04-24
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is one of those things I do...
2019-04-24 (first published: 2019-04-10)
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I was testing something the other day and ran sp_who2 on a test instance. I saw this in the program listing: I had never seen the Mashup Engine listed...
2019-04-24
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I was asked the other day why a customer was having performance issues on a table. A simple SELECT that ... Continue reading
2019-04-24
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My certification came in! I’m now accredited to provide training for the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification. It’s not the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) accreditation I once had...
2019-04-23
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I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-04-23 (first published: 2019-04-15)
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Correlated subqueries provide an intuitive syntax for writing queries that return related data. However, they often perform poorly due to needing to execute once for...
2019-04-23
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
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I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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