Grateful to have been a Microsoft MVP
A couple of weeks ago I received the disappointing but expected news that I wasn’t renewed as a Microsoft Data...
2017-01-02
439 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Reminder – Geek Sync Today!
Today (December 14, 2016) at 12 PM Eastern I’m giving a webinar on preparing for your SQL Server farm for the...
2016-12-14
376 reads
Geek Sync Tomorrow: Surviving the Holidays with SQL Server
Tomorrow (December 14, 2016) at 12 PM Eastern I’m giving a webinar on preparing for your SQL Server farm for...
2016-12-13
327 reads
Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving again here in the United States. Throughout the years, the IT community has been awesome. I have been...
2016-11-24
405 reads
Webinar Available On Demand – Building an Auditing Framework for SQL Server
Recently I gave an introductory webinar on how to build an auditing framework for SQL Server. The focus was for...
2016-10-19
507 reads
Webcast Tomorrow: Building an Auditing Framework for SQL Server
Faced with auditing SQL Server on a regular basis with no 3rd party tools? Where do you start? That’s what...
2016-10-12
444 reads
Reminder: Webinar today
This is a reminder that I’ll be giving a webinar today on managing SQL Server Agents jobs in a SQL...
2016-09-08
394 reads
Reminder: #SQLChat at lunch today
This is a reminder that we’ll having a #SQLChat this afternoon at 12 PM EDT. Here are the details:
SQLChat: Do...
2016-09-07
434 reads
SQLChat on Wednesday, Webinar on Thursday!
I’m participating in two community activities this week. One is a #SQLCchat on Twitter and the other is a webinar...
2016-09-06
364 reads
I wrote a SQL Server auditing whitepaper!
I recently collaborated with Idera to produce a short whitepaper on the top 5 things to audit in SQL Server...
2016-07-27
1,026 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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