Critiquing Grant Fritchey: Circa 2008
For several years, I ran a regular feature on this blog, Speaker of the Month. I attend a lot of...
2019-01-22
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Starting a Proof of Concept with SQL Change Automation
One of the ways that you can more easily perform database development tasks is with SQL Change Automation (SCA). This...
2019-02-01 (first published: 2019-01-22)
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Memory Grants part 5: Query hints
Proceed with caution, if you’re thinking of using query hints. This post will specifically cover min_grant_percent and max_grant_percent.
My opinion on...
2019-02-11 (first published: 2019-01-22)
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort...
2019-02-07 (first published: 2019-01-22)
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
15 reads
Leveling Up Your TSQL
I thought I’d use this post to round up some of my other posts into a list of often overlooked/unknown...
2019-01-22
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One Long Week
It started on Saturday. I usually have lunch with one or both of my daughters on the weekend and this week it was just my oldest, going on 15....
2019-01-21
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One Long Week
It started on Saturday. I usually have lunch with one or both of my daughters on the weekend and this...
2019-01-21
215 reads
Call for Speakers – SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2019
SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2019 is scheduled for May 4, 2019. The call for speakers closes on March 5.
2019-01-21
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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