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Maybe we can get Chris Spalton to do some of these for all our events? I really like it. Just a few days until SQL in the City Summit...

ASF 021: Guy in a Cube interview (part 1)

Introduction Guy in a Cube is all about helping you master business analytics on the Microsoft Business analytics stack to allow you to drive business growth. They are just...

Generate script to recreate indexes

For me, this particular code to generate a script to recreate indexes has more practical use in a replication environment. 

For example, the default replication setting is to exclude the...

SSIS 2019 has arrived!

It is not a joke: SSIS is available for Visual Studio 2019 as a preview. Whoa, hold on. SQL Server 2019 hasn’t been released yet? But there’s already an...

DMV - Active queries sorted by CPU usage

select
           s.session_id,

           db_name(s.database_id) DB,

           s.login_time,

           s.host_name,

           s.program_name,

           s.login_name,

           s.cpu_time,

           s.memory_usage,

           s.total_scheduled_time,

           s.total_elapsed_time,

           s.endpoint_id,

           s.last_request_start_time,

           s.last_request_end_time,

           s.reads,

           s.writes,

           s.logical_reads,

           s.is_user_process,

           s.row_count,

           s.open_transaction_count,

           t.text as [command]

from sys.dm_exec_sessions s

inner join sys.dm_exec_connections c...

Where should I clean my data?

As a follow-up to my blogs What product to use to transform my data? and Should I load structured data into my data lake?, I wanted to talk about where you...

Attending a climate protest for the first time

This is a blog devoted to databases, but for once I’m going to go off topic and talk about something I did at the weekend that I’ve never done...

What’s the Mashup Engine?

I was testing something the other day and ran sp_who2 on a test instance. I saw this in the program listing: I had never seen the Mashup Engine listed...

Join me for a PASS Summit Pre-Con

I am very excited to announce I will be delivering a pre-conference session on SQL Server Performance Tuning on November 5th at PASS Summit 2019. If you have ever...

Yes, pulling just the data you need is really important.

I was asked the other day why a customer was having performance issues on a table. A simple SELECT that ... Continue reading