Big Changes for WaterOx Consulting
March of 2019 would have marked that start of the 8th year of WaterOx Consulting, Inc. running. That isn’t going...
2019-01-10
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Blog Posts
Donating Hair Again
There are several organizations which take hair donations, but the one I prefer to donate to is Wigs for Kids,...
2019-01-10
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New vCore Compute Levels for Azure SQL Database and Elastic Pools
Additional vCore-based elastic pools and single databases have been expanded for the general purpose, business critical, and hyperscale service tiers....
2019-01-10
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Power BI World Tour 2019 Tampa
In just a few weeks (Jan 21-22) I will be presenting on two topics at the Power BI World Tour...
2019-01-10
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Sorting Values in a Column
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2019-01-10
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SQL Server Transaction Log is full due to XTP Checkpoint Error 9002, Severity 17, State 16
I want to take some time and discuss my experiences with a certain SQL Server error, error 9002. Error 9002...
2019-01-10
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Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-02)
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Watch: Can This Team Succeed at DevOps? Panel discussion
I recently participated in a panel discussion for the SQL PASS DevOps virtual chapter. If you didn’t make the meeting, you can catch our 90 minute discussion here about...
2019-01-10
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Why is the query hash so useful?
An example of how I use the query hash
I wrote a blog on what the query hash is, right here....
2019-01-10
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A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 2
In my previous post, I outlined the preparations we undertook to migrate a large SQL Server 2008R2 instance to SQL Server 2016. This post details migration day.
Final Prep We...
2019-01-09
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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