Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database
One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)
1,257 reads
The Scary DBA
Speaker of the Month: October 2015
Working on my third year of “Speaker of the Month” posts now. The good news, I haven’t run out of...
2015-10-02
474 reads
PASS Nominations Committee 2015
The Nominations Committee has done their job and the final report has been published.
Good luck to everyone running. Thank you...
2015-09-14
475 reads
Yes, Foreign Keys Help Performance
I created this example several years ago that illustrates how foreign key constraints can help performance. It’s a contrived example....
2015-09-21 (first published: 2015-09-09)
2,695 reads
Speaker of the Month: September 2015
Feast or famine.
The last several months I just haven’t seen that many speakers, let alone that many community speakers. Then,...
2015-09-04
455 reads
Targeted Plan Cache Removal
A lot of times you’ll hear how people are experiencing sudden, intermittent, poor performance on a query, bad parameter sniffing...
2015-09-02 (first published: 2015-08-24)
1,587 reads
Time to Change
I recently spent two days consulting with a company on their database development and deployment processes. They are a small, capable, team...
2015-08-19
756 reads
PASS Board Update: July 2015
I was actually travelling for most of July and some of that was on holiday with the family, the real...
2015-08-13
589 reads
Leadership: A Name and A Principle
I’m actively working to put together the leadership course that I talked about here and here. No, not full time. I...
2015-08-11
510 reads
Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache
Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
What? Still here? You want more?...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)
1,785 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
The T-SQL Tuesday #201 round-up: nine bloggers on whether temp tables are a friend...
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
Forums
Admin Rights for Everyone
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Kerberos Authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL: Mapping AD Groups to Database Roles
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RegEx Functions I
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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