Happy New Year 2015
I know it’s late but I’ve been away, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year.
I...
2015-01-05
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP by Kalen Delaney
The new SQL Server 2014 feature In-Memory OLTP (code-named “Hekaton”) has been attracting a lot of interest since its release,...
2014-12-09
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Video – Identifying large queries using Extended Events
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Webucator (an online training company) asking if they could use my...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-05)
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Blogging for a year!
I’m actually quite proud of the fact that I’ve now been doing this for a year now (and that I’m...
2014-11-07
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Cardinality Estimation in SQL Server
Each time you view a seek/scan operator in an execution plan, you may have noticed that there’s a value for...
2014-11-04
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Identifying large queries using Extended Events
Following on from my last blog post I now want to run through how to identify large queries using Extended...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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Identifying large queries using Server Side Traces
Who are your worst offenders? By offenders I mean, queries that are consuming the most resources on your server(s).
I know...
2014-09-17 (first published: 2014-09-11)
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The Art of Performance Tuning
Performance tuning often gets called an art as people feel that a certain knack or innate talent comes into play....
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Website Pulse
Short blog post this time as Website Pulse contacted me a few weeks ago with a few questions about working...
2014-07-31
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Partitioning Basics – Part 3 – Switching Data
This post follows on from Partitioning Basics – Part 2
In this final part, I want to go through how partitions can...
2014-06-24 (first published: 2014-06-20)
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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