SQL Server Quickie #23 – Plan Cache Pollution
Today I have uploaded the 23th SQL Server Quickie to YouTube. This time I’m talking about Plan Cache Pollution in...
2015-04-07
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
Latches, Spinlocks & Lock-Free Data Structures Recording
A few weeks ago I have spoken at the SQLRally Nordic conference in Copenhagen about Latches, Spinlocks, and Lock-Free Data...
2015-03-30
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Statistics on UNIQUEIDENTIFIER columns
During the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen/Denmark, Brent Ozar (Blog, Twitter) and I had a very interesting conversation regarding Statistics on...
2015-03-16
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Why I don’t (yet) recommend In-Memory OLTP to my customers
Ok, some of you will hate me after this blog posting, but it has to be said. Over the last...
2015-03-11
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Transaction Logging in In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)
In today’s blog posting I want to talk in more detail about how In-Memory OLTP logs transaction log records into...
2015-03-09
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In-Memory OLTP & Deadlocking – my SQLBits sessions
After speaking at the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen earlier this week, my next stop was at the SQLBits conference in...
2015-03-07
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Latches, Spinlocks & Lock-Free Data Structures – my SQLRally Nordic session
Whew, this was an intensive session about Latches, Spinlocks & Lock-Free Data Structures at the SQLRally Nordic conference in Copenhagen. I...
2015-03-04
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SQL Server Quickie #22 – The Buffer Pool
Today I have uploaded the 22th SQL Server Quickie to YouTube. This time I’m talking about the Buffer Pool in...
2015-03-02
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Why do we need UPDATE Locks in SQL Server?
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-08-01 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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SQLBits recap
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-07-22
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
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Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers