Reading Your Execution Plans
I’m putting the finishing touches on the all day seminar on execution plans that I’ll be putting on at DevConnections this...
2015-08-06
928 reads
The Scary DBA
PASS Needs You!
It’s time.
No more procrastinating. No more complaining about the process from the outside. No more excuses.
You have to run for...
2015-08-05
577 reads
Differences Between Actual & Estimated Plans
I have, in the past, made way too much of the need for Actual Plans when doing performance troubleshooting. The...
2015-08-03
870 reads
Hey Kids! Let’s Put on a Show at the Old Barn
Alternate Title: I’m traveling a bunch. Let’s get together and talk.
A bunch of trips and presentations coming up, so I...
2015-07-29
961 reads
Grant’s Fly-by-night Leadership Course – The Plan
Get a better nameDefine my personal goals for the courseI won’t be sharing these with you. I may share them...
2015-08-07 (first published: 2015-07-28)
1,885 reads
SQL Server Management Studio – Footloose and Fancy Free
That’s right. There’s been a divorce. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has been divorced from the server product. In fact,...
2015-07-20
732 reads
How Do You Know You’re Good At Your Job?
You’ve been working as a DBA for X number of years. How do you know you’re good at it? Heck,...
2015-07-13
611 reads
But I Don’t Have a Test Server…
I frequently see statements on forums along the lines of “I don’t have a test server, so I’m going to...
2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-06)
3,145 reads
Speaker of the Month: June 2015
With my travel schedule, I don’t always get out to events where I can see a community speaker. Sometimes, I...
2015-07-03
576 reads
Leadership Training Possibility
I know a few people in the SQL Server community who have been involved in Scouting. A couple of them...
2015-06-30
993 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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