10 Signs You’re Enjoying Your DBA Career Too Much

Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do.  It’s possible to cross the...

Red Gate in the City - DLM Training workshop & UG in NYC - August 27, 2015

We have another great 1-DAY training workshop coming to New York City at MS NYC HQ 11 Times Square on...

What is DBCC?

What is really mean by DBCC and what do people mean when they say DBCC?
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Using Qure Profiler To Benchmark Tuning Progress

the problem of monster views

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Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache

Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
 
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To AutoGrow or not?

Note: This is a repost of an older blog by Sean that’s still applicable. We’ve updated it with a note...

Cleaning Your #PowerBI Power Query Code

Over the weekend I found this nifty tool called Power Query Management Studio. Someone shared it on Twitter and you’ve...

SSIS Catalog – Path to backup file could not be determined

I was creating an SSIS catalog at a new project, but I was greeted with the following error message when...

An interesting setting for NULL but don’t use it for future TIP #109

As we discussed earlier in TIP#103 for NULL in which I shared that we have to take extra care for...