Optional Parameters Causing Index Scans
Optional parameters in a stored procedure often lead to scans in the execution plan, reading through the entire table, even...
2014-04-15
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Simple SQL Server
Why worry about CXPACKET
Many people see CXPACKET at the top of their waits and start trying to fix it. I know this topic’s...
2014-03-11
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Free SQL Server Training (not a sales pitch)
My company cut the training budget this year, and it’s not that uncommon for that to happen anymore. However, I’m...
2014-03-04
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The Approachable DBA
DBAs are the gatekeepers, but if we make it an unpleasant process then people will find a way around the...
2014-02-13
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Cleaning up the Buffer Pool to Increase PLE
Chances are you have extra information in the buffer pool for a bad query and it’s dragging down your PLE,...
2014-01-08
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Indexing Fundamentals
First, lets understand what the types of indexes are. If you take a reference book, you have the two types...
2013-11-20
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New Job Checklist
I started a new job a month ago, but didn’t want to just figure things out as they came to...
2013-10-08
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Fires, SAN failures, tornados, and car accidents all came up today, yet it was a very good day at work. ...
2013-10-04 (first published: 2013-09-30)
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Monitoring and Baselines Presentation
Here’s my full presentation for SQL Saturday #250 in Pittsburgh this past Saturday along with some notes on what I...
2013-09-20
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Monitoring Database and Table Sizes
Trending database and table sizes helps give you an idea of what to expect, and, sometimes, points out problems and...
2013-09-11 (first published: 2013-09-10)
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers