Session Materials for Cloudbrew & Data Meetup Groningen
I presented “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” at Cloudbrew and “How I saved 80% on my ADF costs” as a lightning talk at Data Meetup Groningen. Both slidedecks can be...
2023-12-13
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Microsoft Fabric – the great unifier
I’m seeing a lot of excitement from customers over Microsoft Fabric, now that it GA’d a few weeks ago. One thing that is generating a lot of that excitement...
2023-12-18 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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How to Test Trace Flag 3625
Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger
I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-11)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Comparison Options
Recently a customer asked how they could get index changes to be captured in Flyway Desktop. In their case, they wanted a different fill factor, but I decided to...
2023-12-08
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A New Word: Guiltwrights
giltwrights – n. the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus,...
2023-12-08
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Accounting for Virtualization Head Room
In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
The post Accounting for Virtualization Head Room...
2023-12-07
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Becoming Kristyna Ferris <3
Hey folks, fun personal post today. A few weeks ago, I got married! My amazing new husband is Kyle Ferris, and I will be changing my name to Kristyna...
2023-12-07
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What I Love About My Job
In June this year I took redundancy from the company I’d worked at for the previous 11 years. It was of course an uncertain time while I figured out...
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-07)
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TryHackMe Advent of Cyber
I posted that I was thinking about the AdventOfCode this year, but wasn’t sure I’d spend the time. Someone then posted a link to the TryHackMe advent calendar. I...
2023-12-06
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Blogs
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers