2025-11-23
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Arthur's Blog
What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?
This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)
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Cosmos DB – Monitoring performance
Cosmos DB has become my latest focus and I hope to start sharing more about ways you can use it. Cosmos DB doesn’t provide the same granularity of query...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-15)
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Presentation 5: Presenting Performance Tuning with Memory Grants
So it’s about a week after SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. The event was amazing, tons of great people and in a great venue. Here’s the details of what happened...
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Writing a presentation 4: Practice and improvement
My presentation so far is really rough. I need to improve a lot before SQL Saturday Chicago! For now, the...
2019-03-20
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Writing a presentation 3: Entering the PowerPoint world
This is a series I’m writing as I prepare for SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. My session is called Performance tuning...
2019-03-18
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One week blogging hiatus
I’m taking a brief break from daily blogging, even though it has been a ton of fun.
No excuses
I hope...
2019-03-11
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Favorite community scripts and their parameters
Here’s some of my favorite community scripts and how I like to run them. If you haven’t tried the optional...
2019-03-09
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Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation
This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.
Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...
2019-03-08
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Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump
For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....
2019-03-07
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A New Word: Dorgone
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Negative and Positive Numbers
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