Don’t Just Rely on Query Execution Stats for T-SQL Execution
I recently had an incident where I was looking into the cause of a long running process for a client....
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-09-18)
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Matthew McGiffen DBA
T-SQL Tuesday #106 – The Trouble with Triggers
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Steve Jones asks us to talk about our experiences with Triggers:
https://voiceofthedba.com/2018/09/03/t-sql-tuesday-106-trigger-headaches-or-happiness/
In my post I’m going...
2018-09-12
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Exporting Extended Events Session Data to a Table
If you’re a long time Profiler user like me then you probably often take the option of saving (or loading)...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-08-08)
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Using the built-in System Health session
When Microsoft introduced Extended Events (XE) in 2008, they also gave us a built-in XE session called system_health (though it’s...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-08-01)
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There’s Still a Place for SQL Server Profiler
Follow a few of the SQL Family on Twitter and you’ll mostly see one view regards SQL Profiler, and it’s...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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T-SQL Tuesday 104 – Capture expensive queries with query store
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Bert Wagner invites us to share SQL scripts we’ve written that we’d hate to live...
2018-07-10
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Alter Multiple Databases at Once
This is a quick and dirty method I often use when I want to make a change to multiple databases...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-06-26)
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Cycle Through Your Clipboard History In SSMS
This is my favourite SSMS trick I’ve discovered recently, probably some time towards the end of last year.
Basically, when you...
2018-06-06
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The Importance of ORDER BY
Everyone, at the beginning of their SQL career, get’s told that it is important to include an ORDER BY if...
2018-05-30
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Thoughts on Query Performance with TDE enabled
Microsoft state that enabling TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) usually has a performance overhead of 2-4%. That doesn’t sound like very...
2018-05-23
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Blogs
Techorama 2022 Slides
By Steve Jones
I had a great time at Techorama. I’ll do a writeup on the event,...
Daily Coping 27 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Daily Coping 26 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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Load balancing IPv6 UDP
It seems that none of the cloud providers have internal load balancers that can...
Beginner Question about Azure SQL Database and Source Control (Azure Dev Ops)
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