Getting Help Online
I spend a lot of time in the forums on various web sites, trying to assist people with getting help online. It’s shocking how hard they make it. Let’s...
2022-11-02 (first published: 2022-10-24)
143 reads
The Scary DBA
Monitor Cardinality Feedback in SQL Server 2022
It’s possible for you to see new technology at work if you use Extended Events to monitor cardinality feedback. To put it simply, cardinality, the number of rows being...
2022-10-26 (first published: 2022-10-17)
224 reads
Query Store at PASS Data Community Summit
While Query Store has been out for quite some time now, released in 2016, there’s still quite a lot of missing understanding of what Query Store can do for...
2022-10-11
3 reads
Check Every Metric
Recently, a person asked about the costs differences in an execution plan, referencing them as if they were performance measures. The key to understanding performance is to check every...
2022-10-10
6 reads
PGSQL Phriday #001: Two Truths and a Lie
As a part of my own journey of learning within PostgreSQL, I’ve decided that I’m going to take part in PGSQL Phriday as often as I can, just as...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-07)
186 reads
DevOps From Redgate
In a few weeks at the PASS Data Community Summit, I’ll be joining several other Redgaters to put on an all-day precon where we take you on a database...
2022-10-14 (first published: 2022-10-04)
113 reads
Function Vs. Performance
Recently I was looking through DBA.StackExchange when I saw a pretty simple question that I decided to answer. I went off, set up a test database and some test...
2022-10-03
20 reads
Why You Need Presentation Skills
And no, the answer is not because you want to be a Microsoft MVP. Multiple surveys have been published over the decades that list “fear of public speaking” as...
2022-09-29
18 reads
Query Tuning At PASS Data Community Summit
The all new, in-person, PASS Data Community Summit is in just a few weeks. Since I’m shortly going to be publishing a 100% rewritten book on query tuning, I...
2022-10-12 (first published: 2022-09-28)
200 reads
Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
31 reads
Blogs
The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
By ChrisJenkins
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs
It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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The Last Good DBCC Run
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count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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