Confusion of An Old Technologist
As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...
2017-02-23
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The Scary DBA
Estimated Costs of All Queries
One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...
2017-02-22 (first published: 2017-02-20)
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Export All Plans From Cache to a .SQLPLAN File
I was asked if there was an easy way to export all the plans from cache to a .SQLPLAN file....
2017-02-13
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Does Query Store Pre-Allocate Space
I love the questions I get while I’m presenting because they force me to think and learn. The question in...
2017-02-14 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Still Grateful to Rodney Landrum
So, my blog got hacked. They edited the page where I thanked Rodney for all that he did. I had...
2017-02-06
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I have been hacked
I’m working on securing the blog. Please stand by. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.
The post I have been hacked...
2017-02-05
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Data About Execution Plans
If you look at the Properties for the first operator of a graphical execution plan, you get all sorts of great...
2017-01-23
530 reads
Scheduling Statistics Maintenance in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
The power and capabilities of Azure SQL Data Warehouse are pretty amazing. However, it’s still basically SQL Server under the...
2017-01-25 (first published: 2017-01-18)
1,107 reads
Query Optimizer and Data Definition Language Queries
Data Definition Language queries don’t go through the optimizer, right? While normally, my short answer to this question in the past would...
2017-01-10
589 reads
Database Configuration
It’s amazing just how much the landscape changed with the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1. For example, I just...
2016-12-20
456 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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