How to get Live Execution Plan using Extended Events
Introduction
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were supposed to troubleshoot a long running expensive query that...
2019-03-06 (first published: 2019-02-19)
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Joyful Craftsmen Blog
Extended Events: Detect Implicit Conversions that affect execution plans
Implicit Conversions – Introduction
In this blog post, I’ll explain and demonstrate how to use Extended Events to detect Implicit Conversions that...
2019-01-24 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Clustered Column Store Load Pitfalls – Magic number 64 when using WHERE IN clause
The Problem
During our workload we have recognized a difference in performance for queries using IN clause. We are building query...
2018-12-18
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Watch out – new Database Level Health Detection can send your AOAG down!
Background
In the past, Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster only monitored the health of your entire Always On Availability Groups...
2018-11-20
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Failed Installation of SQL Server Cumulative Updates Debugged
Background
Our customer has recently experienced an issue during the installation of the latest cumulative updates in their SQL Server environment....
2018-11-05
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DAX – Cumulative Total and Blank Handling
When developing DAX measure, you should be aware that Blank value behavior might be similarly insidious as NULL value in...
2018-10-23
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Internal Query Processor Error Debugged
In Joyful Craftsmen we provide, among other things, technical support to our customers, which from time to time involves us...
2018-10-16
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CCI – Data Loading considerations with Partitioned Tables and CCI
Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to describe two case scenarios of bulk loading data, using SSIS, into a...
2018-10-10
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CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 2 – Parametrization of Dynamic SQL
Intro
In the last blog I showed how important statistics are for CCI bulk load even on small tables. This time...
2018-09-26
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CCI – How to load data for better Columnstore Segment Elimination
Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to explain what a columnstore segment elimination is and how to load data...
2018-09-11
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Capturing errors and auditing in Azure SQL DB
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