Webinar – Intro to Azure Data Factory

I’m excited to announce I’m giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com, with “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” as the subject. The webinar will take place at Tuesday May the 3th,...

Daily Coping 12 Apr 2022

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...

T-SQL Tuesday #149 – T-SQL Advice you’d give to your younger self

It’s the second Tuesday of the month, so it’s time for the T-SQL Tuesday blog party! This month’s topic is chosen by Camila Henrique (blog): what T-SQL advice would...

Query Hash and Query Plan Hash Mapping

The problem
As a fan of Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs), Query Store and Extended Events, I often work with the Query Hash and Query Plan Hash (I’ll refer to them...

Query Tuning and Easy Solutions

TLDR: There ain’t one. I was privileged last week to be able to present a couple of sessions at the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (great event, I...

Setting the Container Name–#SQLNewBlogger

I had started a Stairway series on containers (which I need to get back to), and I got a question. How do we set the name of a container?...

Daily Coping 11 Apr 2022

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...

Daily Coping 8 Apr 2022

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...

Speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022

SQL Saturday is coming back to Jacksonville this May. I’m excited to go as I’ve like the city, but I’ve never been to this particular SQL Saturday. On May...

KEEP PLAN Demystified

Foreword
I was always wondering what the KEEP PLAN hint does. The documentation isn’t very specific (emphasis mine):

Forces the Query Optimizer to relax the estimated recompile threshold for a query.

In...