Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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We’ve been using the wrong data types for all the wrong reasons. DBAs, developers, data architects, etc. have all been...
2015-12-21
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What do I care about when I’m playing with indexes? That’s easy. I want as few indexes as possible efficiently referenced...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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A Clustered Index is not another term for Primary Key, and more thought should be put into the key columns...
2015-12-16 (first published: 2015-12-14)
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Data compression is often misunderstood to cost CPU in exchange for smaller size on disk. Somewhat true, but that simple...
2015-12-08
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I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...
2015-12-08 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Reading the SQL Server Error Log is miserable. It contains very useful information you should address as soon as possible,...
2015-11-16
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I write on my blog and get a couple comments at best. I talk at conferences and a large part of...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...
2015-10-26
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There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust...
I am honored to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP...
By Rohit Garg
Demystifying KTLO: A Deep Dive into Keep The Lights On Work in IT...
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I have tried a number of times to export and then import my SSMS...
For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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