Queries that Fail and How to find Them
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
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2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
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2021-12-29
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Distributed SQL
A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-29)
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And that’s a wrap
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make sure you are vaccinated...
2021-12-29
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Daily Coping 29 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-29
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A (big) SQLPackage caveat
Context I had a request to help with a database from a third-party vendor which uses a lot of FullText-Search (FTS) catalogs. I have to say that I just...
2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
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2021-12-28
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Daily Coping 28 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-28
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Queries that Fail and How to find Them
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
The post Queries that Fail and How to find...
2021-12-28
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Blocked Process Report: How to Get More Value
By combining the raw power of the Extended Events engine in SQL Server with the Blocked Process Report, we are able to achieve real value in blocking monitoring.
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2021-12-28
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