Bad Query Performance Tips Rebutted
Once upon a time, someone, somewhere, wrote a list of bad query performance tips and they’ve been copied all over...
2018-11-20 (first published: 2018-11-12)
3,243 reads
The Scary DBA
What Is Happening, Right Now, At the PASS Summit?
Honestly, that’s a very hard question to answer. I mean, first of all, you can look at the schedule. There...
2018-11-05
208 reads
Explicitly Drop Temporary Tables Or Wait For Cleanup?
I was recently asked if we are going to see performance differences if we explicitly drop temporary tables. I couldn’t...
2018-11-07 (first published: 2018-10-29)
3,998 reads
Why Did a Plan Get Removed From Cache?
I was recently asked if we could tell why a plan was removed from cache. If you read this blog,...
2018-10-26 (first published: 2018-10-22)
1,908 reads
Using Extended Events to Capture Implicit Conversions
Using the appropriate data type to avoid conversions or implicit conversions is a fundamental approach to good T-SQL coding practices....
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
1,813 reads
Database Fundamentals #19: JOINS
The last Database Fundamentals post introduced the SELECT and FROM commands. We’re going to start using JOIN operations shortly, but...
2018-10-22 (first published: 2018-10-08)
2,970 reads
Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer...
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-10-01)
2,726 reads
Introducing Azure Data Studio
If you’re watching Microsoft Ignite or tracking the information coming out of it on social media, then you know that...
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-24)
3,575 reads
Extended Events and Stored Procedure Parameter Values
One complaint I’ve received frequently is that you can’t see stored procedure parameter values in Extended Events. That is patently...
2018-09-24
507 reads
Databases and DevOps, It’s Not Just Me
Anyone who subscribes to my blog or my YouTube channel as well as anyone following me on social media knows...
2018-09-19
325 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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