Pre-Compiled Stored Procedures: Fact or Myth
There’s a very common belief among DBA’s: Stored procedures are pre-compiled. I had someone tell me all about it just...
2009-09-30
1,908 reads
The Scary DBA
Minor Celebration
A little cheap thrill for me. I passed 50,000 views on the blog yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has stopped...
2009-09-30
1,385 reads
Vote for Mr. LaRock
It is rapidly coming up on election time at the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS). Once more, a person...
2009-09-29
1,569 reads
Recap of Cape Cod .NET User’s Group
I presented last night at the Cape Cod .NET User’s Group. What a great bunch of people. About 20 people...
2009-09-24
715 reads
PASS Virtual Chapters
If you’re not a member of the Professional Association of SQL Server users, PASS, why not? No, I’m sorry. I...
2009-09-23
866 reads
Presentation Skills from Brent Ozar
If you present at any level, read this. If you’re thinking about presenting, read this. If you’d like to start...
2009-09-23
1,075 reads
Cape Cod .NET Users Group
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 23, I’m going to present on “Best Practices for Working with SQL Server Execution Plans” for the...
2009-09-22
840 reads
Gila Monster on Estimated vs. Actual Row Counts
I don’t generally do lots of blog aggregation and cross post linking & stuff. It’s just not something I’m that into....
2009-09-22
1,287 reads
Identifying Frequently Running Queries
It’s not enough to look at the longest running query. What if you have two queries, one runs for 5...
2009-09-21
964 reads
More Free Training
Quest Connect 2009, taking place in October 21 for 24 hours, looks like it’s going to have 64 different sessions, live...
2009-09-15
696 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers