17 months of podcasting – recap
Before I publish the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast, I would like to stop and look back for...
2019-01-23
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SQL Power Doc to Discover, Diagnose and Document SQL Server
This article will provide an overview of SQL Power Doc, a powerful script to document SQL Server, including pre-requisites, purpose, installation, processing and output. Automation seems to be an increasing...
2019-01-22
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SQL Power Doc to Discover, Diagnose and Document SQL Server
This article will provide an overview of SQL Power Doc, a powerful script to document SQL Server, including pre-requisites, purpose,...
2019-01-22
344 reads
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
17 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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Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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