Don’t Get Slimed By Bad Parameter Sniffing
Listen! Do you smell something? Are you suffering from random, unexplained slowdowns? Users complaining about queries that sometimes run fast,...
2013-12-09
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Friday Followup For December 6, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-12-06
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So, This Happened Today…
It started like any other Monday following a long holiday weekend. Hundreds of emails to filter through, a new client...
2013-12-03
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What’s In My Utility Belt? Issue #2
Wow, can you believe it’s been a month already since I posted the first issue of “What’s In My Utility...
2013-11-30
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Friday Followup For November 29, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-11-29
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What Are Your Servers Doing While You’re Sleeping?
Well, do you know? You’re the DBA, the guy in charge, the guy who gets pounced on first thing in...
2013-11-25
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Friday Followup For November 22, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-11-22
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What Happens In Vegas…
…stays in Vegas, except when it comes to chocolate. After walking more than 1500 miles over the past 9 months,...
2013-11-21
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 6
Everybody still with me? Have you tried the script from Part 5? Did you notice how SLOW the Active Directory...
2013-11-20
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 5
If you’ve followed along to this point, and have assembled the pieces as I’ve given them to you, you’re now...
2013-11-26 (first published: 2013-11-19)
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Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers