Slide Decks
Hello everyone! Just a quick note. I’ve removed all my slide decks from SlideShare. I found they were inserting ads into the slides and I didn’t sign up for...
2025-08-02
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The Scary DBA
T-SQL Tuesday #187: It’s Extended Events. It’s Always Extended Events
Joe Fleming wants to know how I solve weird problems. I’m not sure I’m actually qualified to answer this question since I, myself, am a weird problem, but I’ll...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-10)
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SSMS 21 Fixes Irritating Problem
I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that...
2025-06-23 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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Query Hints and Estimated Plans
I’m working on an update to my Query Performance Tuning book for SQL Server 2025 and I found myself wondering, will a query hint be immediately apparent in an...
2025-06-11 (first published: 2025-05-26)
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Do Yourself a Favor, Check Out Woodler
I recently was privileged to speak at SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland… man, I love visiting Poland… Anyway… Great event. Worth your time to attend, and if you’re a speaker,...
2025-05-22
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Stack Overflow & AI
I won’t try to pretend otherwise, I’ve had some mixed feelings about Stack Overflow for a long time. I think the concept of the place, ask a question, get...
2025-06-04 (first published: 2025-05-21)
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SSMS 21
Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio...
2025-05-12
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AI in the DBeaver Query Editor
You know I had to do it as soon as I found it was possible. Yes, I installed and enabled AI in the DBeaver Query Editor so I can...
2025-05-21 (first published: 2025-05-05)
245 reads
So You Think You Should Get a Radio
This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something besides SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DevOps, community or data management in general, time to move on....
2025-04-30
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Can AI Read Execution Plans?
Yeah, yeah, second AI post in a row. I promise not to make a habit of it. But I saw someone else mention that you can feed them XML...
2025-05-07 (first published: 2025-04-21)
543 reads
Blogs
A Win in the Fight Against Cyber Scams
By Brian Kelley
Back in June I blogged about pig butchering and the amount of reported losses...
SQL Server I/O Bottlenecks: It’s Not Always the Disk’s Fault
By Kevin3NF
“SQL Server is slow.” We’ve all heard it. But that doesn’t always mean SQL...
Just a few weeks to PASS on Tour and the Redgate Summit
By Steve Jones
It’s just a few weeks until the PASS Summit on Tour in New York...
Forums
What the best ways to create an AG and do failovers with 8TB databases?
Hello. I've been working with AGs for a few years now. However, in my...
Deprecated but Forgotten: Why SQL Server’s Text, NText, and Image Data Types Still Haunt Your Systems
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Deprecated but Forgotten: Why SQL...
Why CQRS and Event Sourcing Are Gaining Ground in High-Concurrency Web Systems
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why CQRS and Event Sourcing...
Question of the Day
Page Compression, Unique Identifiers and Speed
Would using a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER as a clustered primary key improves page compression and speeds up inserts compared to INT IDENTITY?