Query memory grants part 2: Varchars and sorting
Why the heck did we make all our columns varchar? That’s a hypothetical question, please.
But now we have to pay...
2019-01-09
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Arthur's Blog
Basic PowerShell: Get-Member
Disclaimer: I’m still learning PowerShell. I’ve been using it more lately and I want to talk about it more. I’ll...
2019-01-08
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Query plan hash
This is post 3 in the series about query fingerprints. Here’s the previous posts in this series:
Query HashSQL Handle
What is...
2019-01-07
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One tip for presenting: have a conversation
I like public speaking, but I haven’t always liked it. It started when I read Dale Carnegie’s book on public...
2019-01-05
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Query memory grants part 1: Where does the memory go?
Let’s talk about how queries use memory, specifically in the execution plan. One of the query operators that use memory...
2019-01-04
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Query Store max size limit is not a hard limit
If you’re on SQL Server 2016 or above, maybe you’re thinking about using the Query Store. That’s good! It’s an...
2019-01-03
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Make sure your nonclustered indexes are enabled
I know this post might sound obvious. This is a very rare problem. But this actually happened to me, and...
2019-01-02
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Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers