DBA 101: Altering a column
People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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Confessions of a Microsoft Addict
Query tuning 101: Non-trusted Foreign Keys
Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
3,541 reads
Off topic: The two cycle engine and your career path
I’ve been in technology for twenty years now. I’ve seen hundreds of environments, nearly 300 while employed at Microsoft alone.
One...
2016-12-30
777 reads
Using Memory Optimized tables for reporting
I recently worked on a project for fraud. This project needed to relate 67 million accounts to one another “Kevin...
2016-12-27
1,302 reads
Nintendo NES Classic Edition giveaway! #SQLFamily
I’ve managed to get my hands on a Nintendo NES Classic and I’m going to give it away. The details...
2016-12-13
701 reads
What keeps clearing my query stats?
I was building out a blog post about cardinality today and noticed that sys.dm_exec_query_stats was getting cleared my my Surface...
2016-12-27 (first published: 2016-12-08)
1,998 reads
Query Tuning 101: Debugging a procedure
I was recently asked to help tune a stored procedure that has been historically taking between 55 and 60 seconds...
2016-12-15 (first published: 2016-11-30)
4,388 reads
Query tuning 101: How to measure Query Plan I/O cost
If you’re a DBA or a developer chances are you’ve looked at a query plan or two. While looking at...
2016-11-23 (first published: 2016-11-18)
3,296 reads
Query tuning 101: Problems with IN ()
If you’re a DBA or database developer, chances are you will have to write or rewrite queries from time to...
2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-10)
5,700 reads
Why Halloween slowed your queries
Let me start by saying that this isn’t your typical post about the Halloween problem. This is intended to describe...
2016-10-31
982 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
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Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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