Thank You Allen!

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SQL Server Partitioning for Performance

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New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan

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T-SQL Tuesday #152–It Depends

A great invitation this month from Deborah Melkin. I thought this was very apt, as I use this phrase often. Many of us do. This was a tougher post...

Daily Coping 12 Jul 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

You’re doing your POC wrong! : T-SQL Tuesday #152

It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! Deborah Melkin (blog|twitter) is our host this month and she’d like to hear our opinion. A ... Continue reading

What's in a name? (T-SQL Tuesday #152)

Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...

Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: xml_deadlock_report_filtered

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SQLServerCarpenter Tools

Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed several tools that I’ve been using during my Performance Tuning and other related assignments. I thought to share it with the...

Daily Coping 11 Jul 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...