Why So Serious? – #TSQL2sDAY #53
As a child/pre-teen/teenager/young adult, OK, most of my life, I’ve been labeled as “serious” or “grumpy”. Maybe I deserve it...
2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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Improving Query Performance by using correct Search Arguments
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-04-18 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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Antivirus Exclusion Policy for SQL Server
Anti-virus & SQL Server on one system together are friends not enemies, if configured properly.
Anti-virus are very useful programs from security,...
2014-04-08
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The One Million Row T-SQL Test Harness
So far in our blogs, we have talked a bit about performance, but today we’re going to show you a...
2014-04-17 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an upcoming MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I...
2014-04-16 (first published: 2014-04-08)
3,313 reads
One week to SQL Intersection
You still have time to grab the boss and convince him to invest in you. Show what you’ve learned in...
2014-04-08
745 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #78
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-04-07
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Writing My Next Question Of The Day
I ran into a simple error last week and saved it to convert to a question. It’s another one where...
2014-04-07
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April 2014 – SQL Server Monthly Maintenance Checklist
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Make sure you start the month right by taking the time to make certain your SQL Server environment is...
2014-04-15 (first published: 2014-04-07)
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Decree: Set your partition offset and block size – make SQL Server faster
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,024 times: your SQL data and log drives need a 1024 KB...
2014-04-07
1,502 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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