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
631 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)
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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)
2,600 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
1,356 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
634 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)
1,277 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
432 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
610 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
428 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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