Learn about SQL Server 2014 Performance Improvements
On May 11th I will deliver a precon about SQL Server 2014 Performance Improvements at the SQLDay Poland conference in...
2015-04-09
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
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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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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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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