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
1,793 reads
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)
2,365 reads
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
446 reads
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
1,293 reads
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)
12,209 reads
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)
7,864 reads
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)
8,789 reads
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
1,182 reads
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
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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