Assuming Good Intentions
With all the stuff going on around the world over the last year, maintaining some degree of mental stability can be quite a challenge. Speaking only for myself, while...
2020-10-09 (first published: 2020-10-05)
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The Scary DBA
Capture Execution Plans Only For Long Running Queries
I love questions. Most of all, I love questions I can answer. I spotted this question recently: How can I use Profiler to capture execution plans for queries over...
2020-10-05 (first published: 2020-09-28)
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Review: Stellar Repair for SQL Server
I was contacted by Stellar Info quite a while ago. They asked me to try out their software. I said yes, but I was really bad about getting it...
2020-10-01 (first published: 2020-09-23)
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Extended Events: Filter on Stored Procedure Name
I just received a question about Extended Events: What about filtering on the stored procedure name. You know I love writing and talking about Extended Events. The answer is,...
2020-09-04 (first published: 2020-08-24)
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Azure SQL Database Automatic Tuning
I really like the automatic tuning aspect of Azure SQL Database. This post is not a full explanation and demo. Instead, I want to point out a small point...
2020-08-27 (first published: 2020-08-17)
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My First Hand-built AWS CodePipeline
I’ve just completed my first, successful, AWS CodePipeline. I’m sorry to say it took me weeks to figure out just how simple this was. Frankly, it’s embarrassing. I already...
2020-08-19 (first published: 2020-08-10)
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Capturing Queries Can Be a Pain
The moment you decide you want to monitor your SQL Server instance for query behavior, you’re going to be forced to make a bunch of choices. Further, all these...
2020-08-11 (first published: 2020-08-03)
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Announcing: AWS Community Builders
I’m excited to be able to announce that the AWS Community Builders, a new program for those who help out with AWS technologies, has been launched. You can read...
2020-07-30
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Database Fundamentals #28: Creating a Primary Key Using T-SQL
There are actually a couple of ways to create a primary key with T-SQL. You can use the ALTER TABLE script to add a primary key to an existing...
2020-08-06 (first published: 2020-07-28)
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AWS Deployment Pipelines
I’m at the just barely scratching the surface level of getting started with AWS Deployment Pipelines. Of course, the first thing I want to do with them is get...
2020-07-20
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Blogs
From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
Forums
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Estimated Rows
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Question of the Day
Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch? See possible answers