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)
2,237 reads
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)
3,567 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
788 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
1,320 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
722 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)
2,022 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)
4,410 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)
3,389 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)
5,723 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
1,002 reads
Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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