Miscellaneous Notes On System Architecture and Design
When I first joined the programming team at my previous job in an aerospace company, the first observation I made...
2019-02-01 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Memory Grants part 3: How much memory can one query get?
When you build a brand new shiny SQL Server, you want to get a lot of memory so your queries...
2019-01-31 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Supercharge Your SQL Server Scalar Functions By Switching To Table Value Functions
User defined functions in SQL server can cause all kinds of performance problems, there are however some tricks that are...
2019-01-18
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Data Warehousing Tip #5 – Use surrogate keys
My fifth data warehousing tip is to always use surrogate keys for your dimension and fact tables.
Surrogate keys are keys...
2019-02-07 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Error : DBCC could not obtain a lock on this object because the lock request timeout period was exceeded
DBCC CheckDB failed with error “DBCC could not obtain a lock on this object because the lock request timeout period...
2019-01-18
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 3: SPLIT and FLATTEN
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough...
2019-01-17
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3 Key Points from My Upcoming Talk, “DevOps: What, Who, Why, and How?”
Next week, I’m giving a free webcast for Redgate on DevOps fundamentals. DevOps is something I am a big proponent of for database administrators, developers, and company leaders. The...
2019-01-17
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When the query plan hash is deceptive
When you’re querying the plan cache, you need to know the four primary objects: the query hash, query plan hash,...
2019-01-17
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Audit SQL Agent Jobs
One probably seldom thinks of the SQL Agent jobs scheduled on the SQL Server instance - unless they fail. What if the job failed because something was changed in...
2019-01-17
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Audit SQL Agent Jobs
One probably seldom thinks of the SQL Agent jobs scheduled on the SQL Server instance – unless they fail. What if...
2019-01-17
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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