Query Store custom SSMS performance dashboard
As most of you might know, I am a big fan of the Query Store feature inside SQL Server 2016....
2016-11-08 (first published: 2016-11-02)
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE and sensitive data
Just over 2 months ago Service Pack 2 for SQL server 2014 was released. Included in this Service Pack is...
2016-09-28
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Broadening Horizons: From DBA to Data Science #2 Math Fundamentals
In the previous article in this blog series I told you my plans of expending my horizons towards the Data...
2016-06-06
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Broadening horizons: from DBA to Data Science #1
As an IT professional we are used to spending a lot of time learning about new technologies or how we...
2016-06-09 (first published: 2016-06-02)
4,833 reads
SQL Server 2016 – It just runs faster SQL Server Engineer Blog Post Overview
In March the CSS SQL Server Engineers started to blog about various new enhancements made to the SQL Server Engine...
2016-04-22 (first published: 2016-04-13)
3,040 reads
SSMS Preview Plan Comparison Tool and Plan Viewer Optimizations
With the February release of the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Preview Microsoft introduced a nice new tool inside SSMS,...
2016-04-06
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Talking about the Query Store at SQLBits!
From the 4th till the 7th of May 2016 one of the biggest SQL Server conference in the world will...
2016-03-29
758 reads
SQL Server Management Studio Preview
You may have heard that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now available as a stand-alone installation package outside of...
2016-03-18
697 reads
Session Based Wait Statistics in SQL Server 2016
As you probably know I am very fond of SQL Server Wait Statistics (shameless book link) and the options they...
2016-03-14
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Pro SQL Server Wait Statistics available now!
Remember that blog post from April this year that I announced working on my first ever SQL Server related book...
2015-09-02
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