The Curse of Relational Databases
Let’s face it, none of Information Technology is easy. Oh yeah, there are those few geniuses that have an absolute...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
5,178 reads
The Scary DBA
Natively Compiled Procedures and Bad Execution Plans
I’ve been exploring how natively compiled procedures are portrayed within execution plans. There have been two previous posts on the...
2014-06-17
1,365 reads
Differences In Native Compiled Procedures Execution Plans
All the wonderful functionality that in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures provide in SQL Server 2014 is pretty cool. But,...
2014-06-13 (first published: 2014-06-10)
2,062 reads
Speaker of the Month, June 2014
It’s not like I can’t find plenty of great presentations here in the US, but, while I was over in...
2014-06-06
753 reads
Natively Compiled Procedures and Execution Plans
The combination of in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures in SQL Server 2014 makes for some seriously screaming fast performance....
2014-06-05
1,373 reads
Add an Instance to SQL Server Azure Virtual Machine
How do you add an instance to your local SQL Server installation? You run the executable that you probably downloaded...
2014-05-19 (first published: 2014-05-13)
1,494 reads
Carolina Cruise
I’m going to speak at three user groups in three days in North and South Carolina. Evidently this is known...
2014-05-09
496 reads
Speaker of the Month, May 2014
Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...
2014-05-02
1,200 reads
Azure Automation
I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...
2014-04-23
1,384 reads
I Am Better Than You
That is a patently false statement and total BS. It sure does crawl up your spine though doesn’t it? Why...
2014-04-22
935 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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