SQL In The City: London 2012, Recap
Wow!
How’s that for a recap?
The concept for the SQL in the City events is pretty simple. Put on a free...
2012-07-17 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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The Scary DBA
Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified
One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...
2012-07-02
1,501 reads
The New Phone Book Is Here!
I can’t help it. I get really terribly excited when I publish a book. Maybe it should be old hat....
2012-06-27
1,600 reads
Problems with my new book
First off, I apologize. As if writing a book wasn’t hard enough, now we get new problems because of on-demand...
2012-06-26
834 reads
Does Encryption Affect Seeing Statements in Deadlock Graphs?
Good question. I don’t have a clue. So let’s set up a test. I’ll create this stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE DL2e
...
2012-07-03 (first published: 2012-06-25)
2,256 reads
PASS Summit 2012
I sure hope you’re planning on attending the PASS Summit this year. If you’re not, you might want to reconsider....
2012-06-19
787 reads
PASS Nomination Committee
For some reason, which isn’t completely clear to me, we’re voting for part of the members of the Nomination Committee...
2012-06-13
808 reads
Guest Blog
I was given the opportunity to put together a guest blog post for the MVP blog. I did a little...
2012-06-05
941 reads
How to Drop One Plan from Cache
While presenting this weekend at SQL Saturday #117 in Columbus, OH (great event, if you missed it, you missed it),...
2012-06-07 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes
This whole concept of the clustered index as a foundational structure within SQL Server is just plain nuts. Sure, I...
2012-05-31
2,363 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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