Baseline SQL Server with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor
Baselines can be any set of metrics that have been recorded to give you an understanding of what is the...
2013-06-24
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SQL Server 365
Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
We all dread the scenario whereby SQL Server is under so much load and has a complete lack of resources...
2013-05-29 (first published: 2013-05-23)
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Object Qualification
I came across an interesting issue recently with NHibernate, now it is widely known I despise ORM’s, in my experience...
2013-05-22 (first published: 2013-05-15)
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DTA and Hypothetical Indexes
For those of you that don’t know DTA stands for Database Engine Tuning Adviser and is available from the Tools...
2013-05-15 (first published: 2013-05-09)
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SQL Server Hardware and Acronyms
Over the weekend I finished reading yet another Red Gate book, this one was SQL Server Hardware by Glenn Berry...
2013-05-07
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Index Tuning
This week I've been carrying out some performance tuning of some of the more intensive procedures in one of our environments. Using...
2013-03-21 (first published: 2013-03-14)
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Cost Threshold for Parallelism
Parallelism, where to start? Well let’s start right at the beginning shall we with the question, what is parallelism? Simply...
2013-02-26
3,515 reads
Fun with dates
Every year me and a group of friends attend the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, for us it...
2013-02-17
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T-SQL Gotcha
I came across an interesting issue a few days ago that I thought I would blog about. The issue is...
2013-02-15
1,598 reads
Script Replication with PowerShell
I promised you some PowerShell scripts this year and this post is the first one. I can see the value...
2013-02-14
6,778 reads
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
Forums
Query compile/runtime issue
I have a plan which in sys.query_store_plan shows: Last_compile_start_time of 2026-04-23 00:13:00.7670000 +00:00 Last_execution_time...
Hiring: Financial SQL Systems Administrator
Fisher Phillips is looking for a Financial Systems Administrator to help support and improve our financial...
Job Opening for ERP Systems Administrator - Hybrid
Employee owned company, been around for over 50 years. Hybrid opportunity, looking folks in Pacific...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers