Rowcount estimates when there are no Statistics
When you don't have statistics, what does SQL use to calculate the estimated number of rows?
2021-02-04 (first published: 2021-01-26)
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 4 - JOINS
This is a bit of a longer one, a look at how to do all the different joins and the exciting thing for MSSQL developers is that we get...
2021-01-25
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 4 - JOINS
This is a bit of a longer one, a look at how to do all the different joins and the exciting thing for MSSQL developers is that we get...
2021-02-05 (first published: 2021-01-25)
170 reads
Recovering Data from a Backup with SQL Data Compare
I had a customer recently ask about how to recover data from a backup file. I believe the request was for SQL Backup, but I knew there was another...
2021-02-02 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Data Lakehouse defined
As a follow-up to my blog Data Lakehouse & Synapse, I wanted to talk about the various definitions I am seeing about what a data lakehouse is, including a...
2021-01-25
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Data Lakehouse defined
As a follow-up to my blog Data Lakehouse & Synapse, I wanted to talk about the various definitions I am seeing about what a data lakehouse is, including a...
2021-02-02 (first published: 2021-01-25)
634 reads
SELECT * Hurts Performance, Badly
Quite a few years ago, I wrote a post about SELECT * and performance. That post had a bit of a click-bait title (freely admitted). I wrote the post...
2021-02-01 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Daily Coping 25 Jan 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...
2021-01-25
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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Speaking about Latches & Spinlocks at the EightKB Online Conference
This Wednesday I have the pleasure to speak about Latches, Spinlocks, and Latch Free Data Structures at the EightKB Online Conference. This year they are expecting more than 1500 attendees and...
2021-01-25
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
Forums
SQL Server Vector Support II
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Troubleshooting Slow Queries That Already Have an Index
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SQL Server Vector Support II
With regard to SQL Server 2025's Vector support, what is an embedding?
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