PASS Board: Year-End Wrap-Up
This month concludes my second full year on the PASS Board of Directors and my first full year on the...
2016-12-19
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The Scary DBA
OPTIMIZE FOR Hints When Parameter Sniffing is Turned Off
While presenting recently and talking about dealing with bad Parameter Sniffing, I got the question; what happens to OPTIMIZE FOR...
2016-12-12
645 reads
Presentations for SQL Server Beginners
Tired from all those blog postsFor my final blog post in the #gettingstarted, #iwanttohelp series, I decided to curate a...
2016-12-23 (first published: 2016-12-05)
3,290 reads
Database Clone
There are a bunch of ways you could create a database clone. Backup and restore is one method. Export/Import is...
2016-12-19 (first published: 2016-11-28)
2,643 reads
PowerShell to Test a Query
So you want to do some tuning, but you’re not sure how to test a query on it’s performance. Not...
2016-11-23
1,362 reads
SQL Server on Linux: Boring
As a concept, SQL Server on Linux is thrilling. Due to this, the OS doesn’t stand in the way of...
2016-11-22
638 reads
Query Data Store Data
The data in the Query Data Store is what makes all the magic happen. From collecting the aggregate performance metrics...
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-21)
1,284 reads
Book Review: Marshmallow Test
Different people approach their career in different ways. My working assumption, all the time, is that I don’t know enough...
2016-11-18
443 reads
Azure Data Platform Learning Resources
I know that more and more of you are moving more and more resources into the Azure Data Platform. In...
2016-11-09
622 reads
PASS Board Update: Post-Summit 2016
Monday
I got in on Sunday and chose to have a small dinner with a couple of friends, quiet, preparing.
Monday was...
2016-11-08
431 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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