Don’t Just Rely on Query Execution Stats for T-SQL Execution
I recently had an incident where I was looking into the cause of a long running process for a client....
2018-09-28 (first published: 2018-09-18)
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Blog Posts
Moving Objects to a New Schema
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-09-28 (first published: 2018-09-20)
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Native UTF-8 Support in SQL Server 2019: Savior or False Prophet?
(last updated: 2018-12-26 @ 16:20 EST / 2018-12-26 @ 21:20 UTC )
(NOTE: For recent update, please see “Update for CTP 2.2” section)
For some...
2018-09-28
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Off to #SQLSat Pittsburgh
I’ve never been to Pittsburgh. Actually, in all of my speaking and traveling, I don’t think I’ve even flown through...
2018-09-28
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Understanding a UK Keyboard for a US developer
One of the very interesting parts of my job is that I run into UK keyboards on a regular basis....
2018-09-28
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Azure Cognitive Services – Speech APIs
This week in my Azure Every Day posts, I’ve been focusing on Azure Cognitive Services and what these features can...
2018-09-27
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Do You Need a Relational Data Warehouse?
Are you looking to do a major update to your data warehouse or looking to modernize? Many technologies have come...
2018-09-27 (first published: 2018-09-11)
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Finding Objects in a Schema #SQLNewblogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-09-27
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Getting error “unable to parse remote unpack status” when attempting to push to Azure Repo in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about a situation where I went to push my latest local changes to my git repository...
2018-09-27
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Help me present at GroupBy: review my abstract
I’ve submitted a session proposal to the free, online GroupBy conference. Voting will open for sessions soon, but before then, you can help me out by reading my abstract....
2018-09-27
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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