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
872 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
963 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)
1,886 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
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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that one limitation in replication
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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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