Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer...
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-10-01)
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SQL Homework – October 2018 – Time for an upgrade
When you created your home lab last September you probably installed a version of SQL 2016. Well, SQL 2017 was...
2018-10-01
313 reads
Checking Trace Flags with dbachecks, online docs and PSPowerHour
It’s been a few weeks since i have blogged as I have been busy with a lot of other things....
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-09-29)
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Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You're Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
163 reads
Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You’re Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
147 reads
Native UTF-8 Support in SQL Server 2019: Savior or False Prophet?
(last updated: 2018-12-26 @ 16:20 EST / 2018-12-26 @ 21:20 UTC )
(NOTE: For recent update, please see “Update for CTP 2.2” section)
For some...
2018-09-28
10,772 reads
Understanding a UK Keyboard for a US developer
One of the very interesting parts of my job is that I run into UK keyboards on a regular basis....
2018-09-28
1,017 reads
Azure Cognitive Services – Vision APIs
In this final post of my Azure Cognitive Services week of Azure Every Day, I’ll focus on the Vision APIs...
2018-09-28
314 reads
Off to #SQLSat Pittsburgh
I’ve never been to Pittsburgh. Actually, in all of my speaking and traveling, I don’t think I’ve even flown through...
2018-09-28
975 reads
Finding Objects in a Schema #SQLNewblogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-09-27
1,140 reads
Blogs
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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